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TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES Infectious Disease Control Unit E p i C a s e C r i t e r i a Guide, 2014 Revision: January 2014 Texas Department of State Health Services Epi Case Criteria Guide, 2014 Editor Nadia Bekka, M.Ed. Contributors Amy Littman Laura Tabony, MPH Bobbiejean Garcia, MPH, CIC Lesley Brannan, MPH Brandy Tidwell Maria G Rodriguez Dawn Hesalroad, M.Ed. Marilyn Felkner, DrPH Eric Fonken, DVM Michael Fischer, MD, MPH & TM Eric Garza, MPH Neil Pascoe, RN, BSN, CIC Gary Heseltine, MD, MPH Nicole Evert, MS Greg Leos, MPH, CPH Rachel Wiseman, MPH Inger-Marie Vilcins, MIPH, PhD Venessa Cantu, MPH Irina Cody, MPH Wendy Albers Kayla Boykins Texas Department of State Health Services Infectious Disease Control Unit Emerging and Acute Infectious Disease Branch // Zoonosis Control Branch Mailcode 1960 PO Box 149347 Austin, TX 78714-9347 Phone 512.776.7676 • Fax 512.776.7616 Revised: January 2014 Publication No. E59-11841 Revision: January 2014 ~ ii ~ REVISIONS MADE FROM THE 2013 TO THE 2014 EPI CASE CRITERIA GUIDE Diseases notifiable in 2014 (not notifiable in the 2013 guide) (Title 25, Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 97, Subchapter A, Control of Communicable Diseases): . Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae* . Multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter* *See Multi-drug resistant organisms (MDRO). CRE and MDR-A reporting is covered and encouraged as a rare or exotic disease and will be specified by Texas Administrative Code (TAC) rule with an estimated effective date of April, 2014. Changes in nomenclature: . Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)..................................................TO................................................Novel Coronavirus Causing Severe Respiratory Disease Disease specific revisions: description of condition (DC), case criteria (C), laboratory confirmation tests (L) . Anaplasma phagocytophilum ................................................. DC & C . Influenza A-novel/variant viral infections ................................ C & L . Anthrax ................................................................................................ DC . Malaria .................................................................................................... L . Arbovirus .................................................................................... DC & L . Measles ............................................................................................ C & L . Babesiosis .................................................................................... DC & C . Novel coronavirus ...................................................................... DC & C . Chagas disease, chronic indeterminate.......................... DC & C & L . Pertussis ....................................................................................... DC & C . Chagas disease, chronic symptomatic ................................... DC & C . Salmonellosis ........................................................................................... C . Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ................................................... DC, C & L . Shigellosis................................................................................................. C . Cysticercosis .............................................................................. DC & L . Streptococcus, invasive group A (GAS) ................................. DC & C . Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ......................................... DC & C . Streptococcus, invasive group B (GBS) .............................................. C . Dengue fever ........................................................................................... C . Trichinellosis ........................................................................................... C . HCV ........................................................................................................ C . Typhus fever (endemic fleaborne, Murine) ...................................... L NOTE: The following are not notifiable (unless they meet the inclusion criteria of a reportable disease including outbreaks, exotic diseases, and unusual expression of disease) and have been included in the 2014 guide for ease of access to their case definition: . Influenza, human isolates . Staphylococcus aureus, coagulase-positive, . Streptococcal toxic-shock syndrome . Norovirus methicillin-or oxacillin-resistant (MRSA) Revision: January 2014 ~ iii ~ TABLE OF CONTENTS This document provides infectious disease information for surveillance and data entry staff. It contains a table with condition codes, condition names, and case criteria to aid in the classification and coding of conditions. It is organized alphabetically by condition name. Conditions specified as reportable in Title 25, Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 97, Subchapter A, Control of Communicable Diseases are in bold type. Click on a condition in the table of contents to go to the text and on the condition code to move back. Editor .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. ii Contributors ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. ii Revisions made from the 2013 to the 2014 Epi Case Criteria Guide ......................................................................................... iii Table of Contents ........................................................................................................................................................................... iv Definition of Terms ....................................................................................................................................................................... vii Abbreviations ................................................................................................................................................................................ viii Notes ................................................................................................................................................................................................ ix CASE CRITERIA ............................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Amebiasis ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 10 Amebic meningitis/encephalitis, other ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Am Amebic meningoencephalitis, primary (PAM)...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Anaplasma phagocytophilum .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 11 Anthrax ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 12 Antibiotic resistant isolates .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 12 Arbovirus, neuroinvasive (encephalitis/meningitis) and non-neuroinvasive ........................................................................................................................................... 13 Babesiosis ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Ba Botulism, foodborne................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Botulism, infant .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 15 Botulism, other unspecified ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................