Infection Control Manual, Reportable Diseases

Reportable Diseases
	Introduction
	Category I Diseases
	Category II Diseases
	Reporting Requirements Inpatient Ambulatory Clinics
	Laboratory Reportable Significant Findings

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Yale New Haven Hospital
QISS
GB 325
New Haven, CT
06504 USA

Dr. Jeff Topal
688-4634


Laboratory Reportable Significant Findings: M-Z

Malaria/blood parasites^1,2:
Measles (Rubeola) (titer):
Meningococcal disease, invasive^1,3
Mercury poisoning (urine > 35 ug/g creatinine or blood > 1.5 ug/dL)
Mumps (titer):
Pertussis (titer):
   DFA Smear:
   Positive Negative
   Culture:
   Positive Negative
Pneumococcal disease, invasive^1,3
   Oxacillin disk zone size:        mm
   MIC to penicillin:        ug/mL
Poliomyelitis
Rabies
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Rubella (titer)
Salmonellosis^1,2
   (serogroup/serotype)
Shiga toxin related disease¹
Shigellosis^1,2
   (serogroup/species)
Staphylococcus aureus infection with
   MIC to vancomycin > 4 ug/mL¹
   MIC to vancomycin:        ug/mL
Staphylococcus aureus disease invasive³
   methicillin-resistant
   Date pt. admitted ___/___/___
Staphylococcus epidermidis infection with
   MIC to vancomycin > 4 ug/mL¹
   MIC to vancomycin:        ug/mL
Syphilis
   RPR (titer):
   FTA (titer):
   VDRL (titer):
   MHA (titer):
Toxoplasmosis⁷
   IgM (titer):
   IgG (titer):
   PCR
Trichinosis
Tuberculosis
   Specimen type:
   AFB Smear:
   Pos Neg
   If positive:
   Rare
   Few
   Numerous
   Culture:
    Mycobacterium tuberculosis only
    Other mycobacterium
         (specify: M.       )
Typhus
Vibrio infection⁶(species)
Yersiniosis (species)

Bioterrorism: possible disease indicators
Anthrax¹
Botulism
Brucellosis¹
Gram positive rod septicemia or meningitis, growth
within 72 hours of inoculation*
Plague
Q fever
Ricin poisoning
Smallpox
Staphylococcal enteroxin B
pulmonary poisoning
Tularemia
Venezuelan equine encephalitis
Viral hemorrhagic fever

Send isolate culture or side to the State Laboratory for confirmation. For Shiga toxin, send broth culture from which positive Shiga-toxin test was made.
Specify etiologic agent.
Invasive disease: confirmed by isolation from blood, CSF pericardial fluid, pleural fluid, joint fluid, bone and intraoperative swab from a normally sterile site or normally sterile tissue obtained during surgery.
Report any tests indicative of HIV infection including antibody, antigen, PCR-based and viral load tests with name and street address.
Report only confirmed HIV antibody tests or positive HIV antigen tests with name* or street addresses. Viral load and PCR-based test results not reportable for this age group.
Send V. cholerae, V. parahaemolyticus and V. vulnificus isolates to the State Laboratory for confirmation.
Report only IgG titers that are considered significant by the laboratory performing the test.

Last modified: October 2, 2002.