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Table 2 Percentage of notifications within one and two intervals corrected for the period of infectiousness before disease onset (Ic) for measles and hepatitis A virus infections, with the percentage assuming zero delay in laboratory reporting (underlined percentages in italics)

From: Analysis of timeliness of infectious disease reporting in the Netherlands

 

percentage notifications ≤ 1 Ic (%)

percentage notifications ≤ 2 Ic (%)

m

Measles

(Ic 7 days) n=134

48.5

60.4

71.6

73.9

0

HAV infection (Ic 14 days) n=1518

71.4

78.7

90.3

93.1

65

  1. Ic (interval corrected) = LP (latent period)-× (period of infectiousness in index patient preceding symptom onset)
  2. [ ]= total number of notifications
  3. m = number of missing i.e. excluded notifications