Table 4.
Number of cases of each syndrome, in total and stratified by reception center (RC; RC1-RC7), recorded by the syndrome-based surveillance system, Austria, September 2015-February 2018.
| Name of syndrome | All RCs | RC (by geographical location in Austria) | ||||||
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RC1 (east) | RC2 (west) | RC3 (north) | RC4 (south) | RC5 (east) | RC6 (south) | RC7 (west) |
| Start date | — | September 2015 | September 2015 | October 2015 | December 2015 | December 2015 | December 2015 | April 2016 |
| Suspected acute URTIa, n (%) | 1470 (50.45) | 722 (38.16) | 127 (70.6) | 250 (71.4) | 240 (83.0) | 28 (39) | 64 (73) | 39 (74) |
| Rash without fever, n (%) | 1174 (40.29) | 1031 (54.49) | 38 (21.1) | 55 (15.7) | 38 (13.2) | 6 (8) | 0 (0) | 6 (11) |
| Suspected acute LRTIb with fever, n (%) | 159 (5.46) | 84 (4.44) | 5 (2.8) | 12 (3.4) | 4 (1.4) | 26 (36) | 22 (25) | 6 (11) |
| Watery diarrhea, n (%) | 73 (2.51) | 29 (1.53) | 10 (5.6) | 30 (8.6) | 2 (0.7) | 8 (11) | 2 (2) | 2 (4) |
| Skin, soft tissue, or bone abnormalities, n (%) | 32 (1.10) | 24 (1.27) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 5 (1.7) | 3 (4) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Skin rash with fever, n (%) | 4 (0.14) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 3 (0.9) | 0 (0) | 1 (1) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Meningitis or encephalitis, n (%) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| High fever with no other signs, n (%) | 1 (0.03) | 1 (0.05) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Unexplained death, n (%) | 1 (0.03) | 1 (0.05) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Total (N) | 2914 | 1892 | 180 | 350 | 289 | 72 | 88 | 53 |
aURTI: upper respiratory tract infection.
bLRTI: lower respiratory tract infection.