Communicable Disease Service


State Epidemiologist/
Assistant Commissioner
Eddy A.Bresnitz, M.D., M.S.
Phone: 609-588-7463

Director
Janet DeGraaf, M.P.A.
Phone: 609-588-7539


Infectious & Zoonotic
Disease Program

Tuberculosis Program

Sexually Transmitted
Disease Control

Vaccine Preventable
Disease Program

Statistics

For Health
Professionals

Health & Senior Services

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    Surveillance Case Definitions

A   Amoebiasis (Entamoeba histolytica)
    Animal bites treated for rabies

  Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)

  Arboviral Diseases

       Dengue Fever

       Eastern Equine Encephalitis

       West Nile Virus

       Yellow Fever (Flavivirus)
B   Babesiosis (Babesia spp.)

  Botulism (Clostridium botulinum)

  Brucellosis (Brucella spp.)
C   Campylobacteriosis (Campylobacter spp.)
    Chancroid (Haemophilus ducreyi)
    Chlamydia infections, sexually transmitted
     (Chlamydia trachomatis)
    Chlamydial conjunctivitis, neonatal
     (Chlamydia trachomatis)

  Cholera (Vibrio cholerae)

  Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

  Cryptosporidiosis (Cryptosporidium spp.)

  Cyclosporiasis (Cyclospora spp.)
D
  Dengue Fever

  Diphtheria (Corynebacterium diphtheriae)
E   Eastern Equine Encephalitis

  E. (Escherichia) coli, enterohemorrhagic

  Ehrlichiosis (Ehrlichia spp.)
G   Giardiasis (Giardia lamblia)
    Gonorrhea (Neisseria gonorrhoeae)
    Granuloma Inguinale
     (Calymmatobacterium granulomatis)

  Guillain-Barre Syndrome
H   Haemophilus influenzae, invasive disease

  Hansen's disease (Mycobacterium leprae)
    Hantavirus infection

  Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS)

  Hepatitis A

  Hepatitis B

  Hepatitis C
K   Kawasaki disease
L   Legionellosis (Legionella pneumophila)

  Leprosy

  Listeriosis (Listeria monocytogenes)

  Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi)
    Lymphogranuloma venereum (Chlamydia trachomatis)
M   Malaria (Plasmodium spp.)

  Measles (Rubeola virus)

  Meningococcal invasive disease
     (Neisseria meningitidis)

  Mumps
N   Neurosyphilis
P   Pertussis whooping cough, (Bordetella pertussis)
    Plague (Yersinia pestis)

  Poliomyelitis

  Psittacosis (Chlamydia psittaci)
Q   Q Fever (Coxiella burnetti)
R   Rabies (human illness)
    Rheumatic Fever

  Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (Rickettsia rickettsii)

  Rubella
S   Salmonellosis (Salmonella spp.)

  Shigellosis (Shigella spp.)
    Smallpox
    Streptococcal disease, invasive group A,
      (Streptococcus  pyogenes group A)
    Streptococcal disease, invasive group B, neonatal
    Streptococcus pneumoniae, invasive disease
    Syphilis (Treponema pallidum)
         Late, Other Than Neurosyphilis
     Latent
     Neurosyphilis
     Primary
     Secondary
     Syphilitic Stillbirth
T   Tetanus (Clostridium tetani)
    Toxic Shock Syndrome
         Staphylococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome
     Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome
    Trichinosis (Trichinella spiralis)

  Tuberculosis confirmed or suspect
      (Mycobacterium tuberculosis)

  Tularemia (Francisella tularensis)

  Typhoid Fever (Salmonella typhi)
V   Vibrio Infections Other Than Cholera (Vibrio spp.)
    Viral Encephalitis
    Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
W   West Nile Virus
Y
  Yellow Fever (Flavivirus)
    Yersiniosis (Yersinia spp)


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