Case Definitions for Communicable Diseases under National Surveillance - 2009

Results of Provincial/Territorial (P/T) Consultation Process
Centre for Communicable Disease and Infection Control
Centre for Food-borne, Enteric and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Centre for Immunization and Respiratory Infections
National Microbiology Laboratory Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)

This document was published in 2009.
It will be updated on a case by case basis.
For each case definition, date of last update will be indicated at
the end of the case definition.

Supplement

November 2009 Volume 35S2
PDF Version (128 pages - 704 KB)

Table of Contents

1. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
3. INTRODUCTION
4. ENTERIC, FOOD AND WATERBORNE DISEASES
   • Botulism
   • Campylobacteriosis
   • Cholera
   • Cryptosporidiosis
   • Cyclosporiasis
   • Giardiasis
   • Hepatitis A
   • Invasive Listeriosis
   • Norovirus Infection
   • Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning
   • Salmonellosis
   • Shigellosis
   • Typhoid
   • Verotoxigenic Escherichia coli Infection
5. DISEASES TRANSMITTED BY RESPIRATORY ROUTES
   • Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
   • Invasive Group A Streptococcal Disease
   • Invasive Meningococcal Disease
   • Invasive Pneumococcal Disease
   • Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza
   • Legionellosis
   • Leprosy
   • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
   • Tuberculosis
6. DISEASES TRANSMITTED BY DIRECT CONTACT AND THROUGH THE PROVISION OF HEALTH CARE
   • Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea
   • Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease, Classic and Variant
   • Group B Streptococcal Disease of the Newborn
7. DISEASES PREVENTABLE BY ROUTINE VACCINATION
   • Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP)
   • Poliomyelitis
   • Varicella (Chickenpox)
   • Diphteria
   • Haemophilus influenzae Serotype b, Invasive Disease
   • Haemophilus influenzae non-b, Invasive Disease
   • Hepatitis B
   • Measles
   • Mumps
   • Pertussis
   • Rubella
   • Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS)
   • Tetanus
8. SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED AND BLOODBORNE PATHOGENS
   • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
   • Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
   • Chlamydia (Chlamydia trachomatis Infection)
   • Gonorrhea
   • Hepatitis C
   • Syphilis, All Categories
9. VECTORBORNE AND OTHER ZOONOTIC DISEASES
   • Anthrax
   • Brucellosis
   • Malaria
   • Plague
   • Rabies
   • Tularemia
   • West Nile Virus Infection
   • Yellow Fever
   • Lyme Disease
10. WORLDWIDE POTENTIAL BIOTERRORISM AGENTS
    • Smallpox
    • Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
      • Crimean Congo
      • Lassa
      • Ebola
      • Marburg
      • Rift Valley