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Diseases Under National Surveillance
(as of January 2009)

Case Definitions for Diseases Under National Surveillance

  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
  • Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP)
  • Anthrax
  • Botulism
  • Brucellosis
  • Campylobacteriosis
  • Chlamydia
  • Cholera
  • Clostridium difficile Associated Diarrhea
  • Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS)
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), Classic and New Variant
  • Cryptosporidiosis
  • Cyclosporiasis
  • Diphtheria
  • Giardiasis
  • Gonorrhea
  • Group B Streptococcal Disease of the Newborn
  • Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS)
  • Hepatitis A
  • Hepatitis B
  • Hepatitis C
  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
  • Influenza, laboratory-confirmed
  • Invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and non-b Disease
  • Invasive Group A Streptococcal Disease
  • Invasive Listeriosis
  • Invasive Meningococcal Disease
  • Invasive Pneumococcal Disease
  • Legionellosis
  • Leprosy (Hansen's Disease)
  • Lyme Disease
  • Malaria
  • Measles
  • Mumps
  • Norovirus infection
  • Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning
  • Pertussis
  • Plague
  • Poliomyelitis
  • Rabies
  • Rubella
  • Salmonellosis
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
  • Shigellosis
  • Smallpox
  • Syphilis
  • Tetanus
  • Tuberculosis
  • Tularemia
  • Typhoid
  • Varicella (Chickenpox)
  • Verotoxigenic Escherichia coli Infection
  • Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
  • West Nile virus Infection
  • Yellow Fever

Case Definitions for Diseases Under National Surveillance