Laboratory Reporting Guidelines For Reportable Diseases

Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC)

c) Beginning 2011, HUS without a preceding diarrheal illness is no longer reportable. 3. Assure that labs forward the first isolate from each patient to the Public Health Laboratories for confirmation of serotype and molecular sub-typing. If a laboratory identifies Shiga toxin in a …

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