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Clinical Information
Clinical, demographic and laboratory characteristics of hospitalized patients with pandemic influenza A/H1N1/2009 virus infection.
Characteristic	Patients with viral RNA detected in respiratory samples only (n = 119)	Patients with viral RNA detected in blood samples (n = 14)	p
Demographics and co-morbidities
Age, in median years (range)	47 (18–85)	49 (19–59)	0.689
Sex
Male	62 (52.1%)	7 (50.0%)	1
Female	57 (47.9%)	7 (50.0%)
Underlying illness	85 (71.4%)	11 (78.6%)	0.757
Pregnancy (in women of childbearing age)	5 / 35 (13.3%)	0 / 4 (0.0%)	1
Laboratory findings on admission (median and range)
Total leucocyte count, ×109 cells/L	7.2 (0.8–32.05)*	4.4 (1.5–9)	0.0033
Neutrophil count, ×109 cells/L	5.3 (0.33–30.45)†	3.1 (1.1–7.3)‡	0.0271
Lymphocyte count, ×109 cells/L	0.8 (0.2–2.8)†	0.37 (0.1–1)‡	0.0004
Platelet count, ×109 platelets/L	196 (13–400)*	152 (81–267)	0.0308
Alanine transaminase level, IU/L	20 (<6–261)§	58 (13–343)	0.0001
Clinical severity
Severe	67 (56.3%)	14 (100%)	0.0025
Mild	52 (43.7%)	0 (0.0%)
Clinical outcome (all cases)
Survived	103 (86.6%)	8 (57.1%)	0.013
Died	16 (13.4%)	6 (42.9%)
Clinical outcome (severe cases only)
Survived	50 (75.8%)	8 (57.1%)	0.192
Died	16 (24.2%)	6 (42.9%)
Patients with viral RNA detected in stool/ rectal samples but not blood (n = 6) were excluded from the comparison.
*(n = 117);
†(n = 113);
‡(n = 11);
§(n = 115).