Australia's notifiable diseases status, 1999: Annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System

This article published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 25, No 4, November 2001 contains the 1999 annual report of National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. This annual report is available as 32 HTML documents and is also available in PDF format.

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Appendix 1 - Case Definitions



The following table displays the case definitions for sexually transmissible infections notified to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System in 1999. If you are not able to access these data please e-mail cdi.editor@health.gov.au.

Appendix 1d. Case definitions and ICD-10 code for notifiable diseases reported to NNDSS in 1999, sexually transmissible infections

Disease
Case definition (NHMRC 1994)
ICD-10 code(s)
Chancroid

Isolation of Haemophilus ducreyi from a clinical specimen

OR a clinically compatible illness characterised by painful genital ulceration and inflammatory inguinal adenopathy, where syphilis, granuloma inguinale and herpes simplex have been excluded

OR a clinically compatible illness in a patient who is epidemiologically linked to a laboratory confirmed case

A57
Chlamydial infection

Isolation of Chlamydia trachomatis from a clinical (genital) specimen

OR demonstration of Chlamydia trachomatis in a clinical (genital) specimen by antigen detection methods

A56
Donovanosis

Demonstration of intracytoplasmic Donovan bodies on Wright or Giemsa stained smears or biopsies of clinical specimens

OR a clinically compatible illness characterised by usually painless, beefy red, granulomatous or ulcerative lesions with rolled edges and a tendency to form scar tissue, where syphilis has been excluded

A58
Gonococcal infection Isolation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae from a clinical specimen A54
Lymphogranuloma venereum

Isolation of Chlamydia trachomatis serotype L1, L2 or L3 from a clinical specimen

OR demonstration (by immunofluorescence) of inclusion bodies in leucocytes aspirated from an inguinal lymph node (bubo)

OR a positive serological test for lymphogranuloma venereum strain of Chlamydia trachomatis in the presence of a clinically compatible illness (one or more tender, fluctuant inguinal lymph nodes or characteristic proctogenital lesions)

A55
Syphilis

A compatible clinical illness or past history

AND demonstration of Treponema pallidum by darkfield, fluorescent antibody or equivalent microscopic methods

OR reactive treponemal tests (e.g. FTA-ABS, TPHA)

A50, A51, A52


This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 25, No 4, November 2001.

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