TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES Infectious Disease Control Unit Epi Case Criteria Guide, 2020 Revision date: January 2020 Texas Department of State Health Services Epi Case Criteria Guide, 2020 Editor Laura Tabony, MPH Contributors Adam Lynch, MPH Johnathan Ledbetter, MPH Adrienne Fung, MPH Jonathan Kolsin, MPH Anna Nutt, MPH, CIC Kamesha Owens, MPH Bonny Mayes, MA Kelly Broussard, MPH Briana O’Sullivan, MPH Laura Robinson, DVM, MS Carlos R. Alvarez, MPH, CPH, A-IPC Melba Zambrano, MSN, RN, CIC Eric Garza, MPH Rachael Straver, DVM, MPH Gillian Blackwell, BSN, RN, CIC Sandi Arnold, RN, CIC Greg Leos, MPH, CPH Sepehr Arshadmansab, MPH Irina Cody, MPH Thi Dang, MPH, CIC Texas Department of State Health Services Infectious Disease Control Unit Emerging and Acute Infectious Disease Branch//Zoonosis Control Branch Mail Code 1960 PO Box 149347 Austin, TX 78714-9347 Phone 512.776.7676 • Fax 512.776.7616 Revised: January-October 2020 Publication No. E59-11841 Revision date: January – October 2020 ~ ii REVISIONS MADE FROM THE 2019 TO THE 2020 EPI CASE CRITERIA GUIDE Changes in scope/name . Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection to Anaplasmosis . Ehrlichia chaffeensis infection to Ehrlichiosis (Ehrlichia chaffeensis infection) . Ehrlichia ewingii infection to Ehrlichiosis (Ehrlichia ewingii infection) . Novel coronavirus to Novel Coronavirus 2019 . Spotted fever group rickettsioses to Spotted fever rickettsiosis Revisions of case criteria for Clinical Description and/or criteria (CD); Confirmed, Probable, Possible, or Suspect cases (CC, PC, PsC, SC); Laboratory Confirmation tests (LC); and Note(s) (N) . Acute flaccid myelitis ........................................................CD, CC, PC, SC, LC . Mumps ................................................................................................................ SC . Anaplasmosis ............................................................................................ CD, LC . Novel coronavirus 2019 .................................................. CD, CC, PC, SC, LC, N . Ascariasis .......................................................................................... CD, PC, LC . Pertussis .........................................................................................................CD, N . Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE)..................................... CD, N . Plague ............................................................................. CD, LC, CC, PC, SC, N . Chagas disease, acute .................................................................................. PC, N . Prion diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) ... CD, CC, PC, PsC, N . Chagas disease, chronic indeterminate ....................................... CC, PC, SC, N . Q fever, acute ...................................................................................... CD, LC, PC . Chagas disease, chronic symptomatic ........................................ CC, PC, SC, N . Rickettsiosis, unspecified ..................................................................... CD, PC, N . Ehrlichiosis (Ehrlichia chaffeensis infection) ............................. CD, PC, LC . Typhus ........................................................................................... CD, PC, LC, N . Ehrlichiosis (Ehrlichia ewingii infection) ................................................... CD . Spotted fever group rickettsioses .......................................................... LC, PC, N . Ehrlichiosis/Anaplasmosis undetermined .................................................. CD . Trichuriasis ................................................................................................. CD, LC . Ebola (HF) ................................................................................... CD, SC, LC, N . Typhus, flea-borne (endemic, murine) ................................................ CD, LC, N . Fascioliasis ........................................................................................................ LC . Viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) Non-Ebola ............................................ CD, SC . Hookworm (ancylostomiasis) ................................................................. CD, LC . Yersiniosis ...................................................................................... CD, PC, LC, N . Legionellosis ..................................................................................... CD, PC, LC . Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter (MDR-A) .......................................... CD, N Revision date: January – October 2020 ~ 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 2019 TO THE 2020 EPI CASE CRITERIA GUIDE ......................................................... ii Table of Contents ........................................................................................................................................................................... iv Definition of Terms ....................................................................................................................................................................... vii Abbreviations ................................................................................................................................................................................ viii Notes ................................................................................................................................................................................................ ix CASE CRITERIA ............................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Acute Flaccid Myelitis ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Amebiasis .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 10 Am Amebic meningitis/encephalitis, other................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 11 Amebic meningoencephalitis, primary (PAM) ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 12 Anaplasmosis (Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection) ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 12 Anthrax .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 13 Arbovirus, neuroinvasive (encephalitis/meningitis) and non-neuroinvasive ............................................................................................................................................................. 14 Ascariasis .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 15 Ba Babesiosis .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 16 Botulism, foodborne......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................