Table 1.
Reporting time interval from symptom onset and from diagnosis until notification (Po and Pd) for infectious disease notifications in relation to the incubation period and in relation to the time after diagnosis, with the values assuming zero delay in laboratory reporting (underlined figures in italics)
| median Po (days) |
percentage notifications ≤ 1IP (%) |
percentage notifications ≤ 2IP (%) |
m |
median Pd (days) |
percentage notifications >3days after diagnosis (%) |
m |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shigellosis (IP 2 days) n=1910 |
15 |
11 |
0.4 |
5.9 |
2.9 |
12.9 |
5 |
3 |
42 |
0 |
| EHEC/STEC (IP 3-4 days) n=432 |
12 |
8 |
2.3 |
10.6 |
23.8 |
43.2 |
49 |
1 |
33.3 |
11 |
| Meningococcosis (IP 3-4 days) n=1263 |
3 |
2 |
57.1 |
71.2 |
86.7 |
94 |
19 |
0 |
12 |
2 |
| Measles (IP 10 days) n=134 |
8 |
6 |
67.2 |
71.6 |
84.3 |
85.8 |
0 |
0 |
15.7 |
0 |
| Typhoid fever (IP 11 days) n=166 |
16 |
12 |
33.5 |
47.5 |
70.3 |
77.2 |
8 |
2 |
22.3 |
0 |
| HAV infection (IP 28 days) n=1518 |
9 |
8 |
90.3 |
93.1 |
97.2 |
98 |
65 |
0 |
20.9 |
1 |
Po = period from symptom onset until notification
Pd = period from laboratory diagnosis until notification
IP = incubation period
n = total number of notifications
m = number of missing i.e. excluded notifications