Clinical case definition

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51Case definition / Medicine / Biology / Health / Viral diseases / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention timeline / Smallpox vaccine / Smallpox / Epidemiology / Bioterrorism

Smallpox 2004 CDC Case Definition Clinical Description An illness with acute onset of fever ≥101º F ( ≥38.3 º C) followed by a rash characterized by firm, deep-seated vesicles or pustules in the same stage of devel

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Language: English - Date: 2012-05-02 14:00:44
52Leptospira / Leptospirosis / Conjunctival Suffusion / Jaundice / Acute kidney injury / Medicine / Health / Veterinary medicine

Leptospirosis (Leptospira interrogans[removed]CDC Case Definition Clinical Criteria An illness characterized by fever, headache, and myalgia, and less frequently by conjunctival suffusion, meningitis, rash, jaundice, or re

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Language: English - Date: 2014-02-10 14:15:01
53Health / Microbiology / Apicomplexa / Infectious disease / Parasitemia / Plasmodium knowlesi / Antimalarial medication / Medicine / Plasmodium / Malaria

Malaria (Plasmodium spp[removed]CDC Case Definition Clinical description The first symptoms of malaria (most often fever, chills, sweats, headaches, muscle pains, nausea and vomiting ) are often not specific and are also

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54Biology / Health / Pediatrics / Bacterial diseases / Bordetella pertussis / Pertussis / Cough / Bordetella / Burkholderiales / Medicine / Microbiology

Pertussis (Whooping Cough) (Bordetella pertussis[removed]Case Definition CSTE Position Statement(s): 13-ID-15 Clinical Criteria In the absence of a more likely diagnosis, a cough illness lasting ≥2 weeks, with at least

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Language: English - Date: 2013-12-19 09:00:02
55Infectious diseases / Sexually transmitted diseases and infections / Chlamydiae / Non-gonococcal urethritis / Urethritis / Pathogenic bacteria / Chlamydia trachomatis / Neisseria gonorrhoeae / Gonorrhea / Health / Medicine / Microbiology

Nongonococcal Urethritis 1996 CDC Case Definition Clinical description Urethral inflammation that is not the result of infection with Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Urethral inflammation may be diagnosed by the presence of one o

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56Epidemiology / Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 / Animal virology / Pandemics / Orthomyxoviridae / Influenza vaccine / Influenza pandemic / Influenza / Health / Medicine

Influenza, adult death (≥ 18 years of age[removed]North Carolina Case Definition Clinical description An influenza-associated death is defined for surveillance purposes as a death resulting from a clinically compatible i

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57Tick-borne diseases / Rickettsiales / Rickettsioses / Gram-negative bacteria / Rickettsia rickettsii / Rocky Mountain spotted fever / Rickettsia / Dermacentor variabilis / ELISA / Bacteria / Microbiology / Zoonoses

Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) (Rickettsia rickettsii[removed]Case Definition Clinical presentation Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is an illness caused by Rickettsia rickettsii, a bacterial pathogen transmitted t

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58Gram-positive bacteria / Biology / Clostridium perfringens / Peripheral membrane proteins / Food safety / Clostridium / Enterotoxin / Foodborne illness / Clostridium perfringens beta toxin / Bacteria / Clostridiaceae / Microbiology

Foodborne disease: Clostridium perfringens 2007 Case Definition (North Carolina) Clinical description An illness characterized by acute onset of some or all of the following symptoms: colic, nausea, and diarrhea; vomitin

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Language: English - Date: 2012-05-02 14:00:44
59Chagas disease / Zoonoses / Trypanosoma cruzi / Carlos Chagas / Chagas: Time to Treat campaign / Medicine / Microbiology / Health

CHAGAS DISEASE (AMERICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS), TENNESSEE CASE DEFINITION Clinical description Acute- The salient clinical features of Chagas disease include fever, malaise, hepatosplenomegaly and lymphadenopathy in the acute

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Language: English - Date: 2011-04-11 13:11:38
60Bacterial diseases / Biology / Medicine / Erythema chronicum migrans / Borrelia burgdorferi / Ixodes / Borrelia / Lyme disease microbiology / Borrelia miyamotoi / Lyme disease / Microbiology / Tick-borne diseases

CASE DEFINITION FOR CHILDHOOD LYME DISEASE Report a patient less than 16 years of age with Lyme disease, meeting the following criteria: Confirmed Lyme disease – Patient fulfills one of two conditions: 1. Clinical evid

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Language: English - Date: 2014-07-01 14:35:43
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