Know your ABCs: a quick guide to Reportable Infectious Diseases in Ohio

from the Ohio Administrative Code 3701-3-02 & 3701-3-13 revised October 2002, 3701-3-12 revised June 2002 and 3701-3-05

 

Class A Diseases

(1) diseases of major public health concern because of the severity of disease or potential for epidemic spread--

report by telephone immediately upon recognition that a case, a suspected case, or a positive laboratory result exists

 

      Anthrax

      Botulism, food borne

      Cholera

 

Diphtheria

Measles

Meningococcal disease                
 

Plague

Rabies, human

Rubella (not congenital)
 

Smallpox

Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF)

Yellow Fever

 

 Any unexpected pattern of cases, suspected cases, deaths or increased incidence of any other disease of major public health concern, because of the severity of disease or potential for epidemic spread, which may indicate a newly recognized infectious agent, outbreak, epidemic, related public health hazard or act of bioterrorism.

 

(2) diseases of pubic health concern needing timely response because of potential for epidemic spread--

report by the end of the next business day after the existence of a case, a suspected case, or a positive

laboratory result is known

 

Chancroid

Cyclosporiasis

Dengue

E. coli O157:H7 and other

  enterohemorrhagic (Shiga

  toxin-producing) E. coli

Encephalitis, Eastern

  equine

Encephalitis, LaCrosse

  (California group)

Encephalitis, St. Louis

Encephalitis, West Nile

Encephalitis, including

   other arthropod-borne

 

Foodborne disease

   outbreaks

Granuloma inguinale

Haemophilus influenzae

   (invasive disease)

 

Hantavirus

Hemolytic uremic                     

   syndrome (HUS)

Hepatitis A

Legionnaires' disease

Listeriosis

Lymphogranuloma                

   venereum
 

Malaria

Meningitis, aseptic,

   including viral

   meningoencephalitis

Mumps

Pertussis

Poliomyelitis

   (including vaccine-

   associated cases)

Psittacosis

Q fever

 

Rubella (congenital)

Salmonellosis

Shigellosis
 

Staphylococcus aureus,

  with  intermediate resistance          

  or resistance to Vancomycin

  (VISA, VRSA)

Syphilis

Tetanus

Tuberculosis, including

   multi-drug resistant

   tuberculosis (MDR-TB)

Tularemia

Typhoid fever

Waterborne disease

   outbreaks

 

(3) diseases of significant public health concern -- report by the end of the work week after the existence of a case, a suspected case, or a positive laboratory result is known

 

Amebiasis

Botulism, wound

Botulism, infant

Brucellosis

Campylobacteriosis

Chlamydia infections

  (urethritis, epididymitis,       

  cervicitis, pelvic

  inflammatory disease,

  neonatal conjunctivitis and  

  pneumonia)

Creutzfeldt-Jakob

  disease (CJD)

Cryptosporidiosis

Cytomegalovirus (CMV)       

  (congenital)

Ehrlichiosis

Encephalitis, other viral
 

Encephalitis, post-

  infection

Giardiasis

Gonococcal infections

  (urethritis, cervicitis,

  pelvic inflammatory

  disease, pharyngitis,

  arthritis, endocarditis,

  meningitis and neonatal

  conjunctivitis)

Hepatitis B

Hepatitis C

Hepatitis D (delta hepatitis)

Hepatitis E

Hepatitis, acute viral,            

  undeterminable etiology

Herpes (congenital)
 

Kawasaki disease

   (mucocutaneous lymph

   node syndrome)

Leprosy (Hansen Disease)

Leptospirosis

Lyme disease

Meningitis, including other    

   bacterial

Mycobacterial disease,          

   other than tuberculosis

Pelvic inflammatory

   disease (PID)

Reye syndrome

Rheumatic fever

Rocky Mountain spotted

   fever (RMSF)

Streptococcal disease,

   group A, invasive (IGAS)
Streptococcal disease,       

   group B, in newborn

Streptococcal toxic shock   

   syndrome (STSS)

Streptococcus pneumo-

   niae, invasive disease     

   (ISP)

Toxic shock syndrome        

   (TSS)

Toxoplasmosis

   (congenital)

Trichinosis

Typhus fever

Vancomycin resistant

   Enterococcus (VRE)

Varicella (deaths only)

Vibriosis

Yersiniosis

 

   Class B Diseases B the number of cases is to be reported by the close of each working week

 

        Chickenpox                   Herpes (genital)      Influenza

 

Class C Diseases - report an outbreak, unusual incidence, or epidemic by the end of the next working day

 

Blastomycosis

Conjunctivitis, acute

Histoplasmosis

Nosocomial infections of       

   any type

Pediculosis
Scabies

Sporotrichosis

Staphylococcal skin              

   infections

Toxoplasmosis
 

Outbreak, unusual incidence, or epidemic of other infectious diseases of known etiology not categorized as Class A,

   Class B or Class C