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Table 1 Number (and percent total) per age group, for laboratory and Emergency Department (ED) syndrome data1.

From: Evaluation of alternative respiratory syndromes for specific syndromic surveillance of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus: a time series analysis

Age group

Laboratory influenza

Laboratory RSV

ED bronchiolitis

ED pneumonia

ED influenza-like

ED acute respiratory infections

ED all respiratory

<1 yr

68 (4.8)

1021 (65.1)

4570 (86.7)

405 (3.2)

36 (2.1)

11531 (18.4)

13094 (11.9)

1-4 yrs

157 (11.1)

443 (28.3)

632 (12.0)

1961 (15.6)

103 (6.1)

18820 (30.1)

25509 (23.2)

5-16 yrs

189 (13.4)

38 (2.4)

21 (0.4)

1356 (10.8)

265 (15.8)

10976 (17.5)

17077 (15.5)

17-34 yrs

289 (20.4)

19 (1.2)

11 (0.2)

956 (7.6)

685 (40.8)

7517 (12.0)

15341 (13.9)

35-64 yrs

367 (25.9)

41 (2.6)

16 (0.3)

2446 (19.5)

489 (29.1)

6466 (10.3)

16168 (14.7)

65+

345 (24.4)

6 (0.4)

23 (0.4)

5419 (43.2)

102 (6.1)

7278 (11.6)

22797 (20.7)

Total

1415

1568

5273

12543

1680

62588

109986

  1. 1. Source: ED data sourced from the NSW Emergency Department Data Collection. Laboratory Influenza data sourced from the NSW Notifiable Diseases Database. Laboratory RSV data sourced from the Eastern Sydney Laboratory Surveillance Program, NSW. Time period for all data: 1 June 2001-1 December 2006.