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Table 3. Total local delay median in period 3 (2013–2017; n = 11,311) and cumulative percentage in period 2016–2017 (n = 9,066), per infectious disease, the Netherlands
Infectious disease
Number of cases
Serial interval
Within 1× incubation period
Within 2× incubation periods
Outbreak control timeframe
EHEC/STEC
2,140 684
NA NA 27.5 (4) 7
NA 3,5 12 94.4 14 7
7.7 7 12 84.5 28 7
27.3 NA NA NA
Hepatitis disease
A 664 B 490
229 162 18 303
94.4 177 90.1
Hepatitis disease
47.5 (20) 12
88.9 75 12
94.4 150 12
97.5 42 12 88.3
Measles
2,724
11.6 (2,4)
4 88.9 3 95
9 91.7
10 4
88.9 20 4
88.9 54 72.2
Meningococ- 603 cosis
14
3.5 3
71.6 7 3
87.1 NA NA NA
Mumps
436 96
19.1 (5,4)
17 9
87.5 34 9
100 8 9 49
Pertussis Rubella
2,118 6,819 61 1c
16 (13) 34 15.1
8,5 34
5.3 17 34 NIc 30 7
16.8 4.5 34 1.7 NIc NA NA NA
Shigellosis Typhoid fever
5 (3.5) 14 4.2 2 14
0.4 4 14 36.4 22 12
2.6 314 1.4 69.7 NA NA NA
P3 2016–17
Median P3
in daysmediana cum%b (SD)
Incubati- P3 2016–17 onperiodmediana cum%b (1)
Incubati- P3 2016–17 on peri-mediana cum%b ods (2)
Pc P3 2016–17 mediana cum%b
2016–17
18.3 7 NIc 15 7 (range:
15–23)d
1,979 722
96 33 NA NA NA 11 12
Cum: cumulative; D1: local delay; EHEC: enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli; STEC: Shiga toxin-producing E. coli NI: not included; P3: period 3, 2013–2017; SD: standard deviation NA: not available. Bold: notification within timeframe (for Period 3, median of serial interval, incubation period(s) or outbreak control timeframe) or threshold (2016-2017, cumulative percentage ≥ 80%).
a: median per infectious diseases (days) as retrieved from table 1
b: cumulative percentage per disease notified within the serial interval, incubation period(s) or outbreak control timeframe (D1)
































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