Prescription Surveillance and Polymerase Chain Reaction Testing to Identify Pathogens during Outbreaks of Infection

Table 3

Incidences of symptoms detected in infections according to individual pathogens (𝑛=50).

	Number of infections	Fever	Headache	Nasal discharge	Pharyngeal pain	Cough
Mycoplasma pneumoniae	2	0%	0%	0%	50%	100%
Enterovirus	4	67%	25%	75%	25%	25%
Parainfluenza 1	3	33%	33%	33%	0%	67%
Rhinovirus + parainfluenza 1	1	0%	0%	0%	0%	100%
Rhinovirus	12	20%	0%	67%	0%	83%
Rhinovirus + RSV-A	1	0%	0%	100%	0%	100%
Rhinovirus + RSV-A + RSV-B	1	100%	0%	100%	0%	100%
RSV-A	2	100%	0%	100%	0%	100%
RSV-B	1	100%	0%	0%	0%	0%
None	23	21%	13%	57%	30%	35%