Suspected case definition
Suspected case means a person thought to have a par- ticular communicable disease on the basis of clinical or laboratory criteria or both.
Suspected case means a person who is displaying one or more coronavirus (COVID-19) symptom. Symptoms include fever above 37.5 degrees Celsius, night sweats, chills, acute respiratory infection (such as cough, shortness of breath, sore throat), loss of smell, and/or loss of taste.
Suspected case means a person who is reasonably believed to be infected with an STI, based on medical or epidemiologic information.
More Definitions of Suspected case
Suspected case or "suspected to be infected" means an individual the Tribal Health Officer, in their professional judgment, reasonably believes that infection with a particular infectious agent is likely based on signs and symptoms, laboratory evidence, or contact with an infected individual, animal, or contaminated environment.
Suspected case means an individual with signs or symptoms suggestive of tuberculosis disease prior to confirmation.
Suspected case means an individual that presents with clinical signs or symptoms indicative of a reportable or quarantinable disease.
Suspected case means a person who is displaying one or more COVID-19 symptoms. The symptoms to watch out for are:
Suspected case means (A) a person whom a health care provider believes, after weighing signs, symptoms, and/or laboratory evidence, to probably have a particular disease or condition listed in subsection (j); or (B) a person who is considered a probable case, or an epidemiologically-linked case, or who has supportive laboratory findings under the most recent communicable disease surveillance case definition established by CDC and published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) or its supplements; or (C) an animal which has been determined by a veterinarian to exhibit clinical signs or which has laboratory findings suggestive of rabies or plague.
Suspected case means a person who is reasonably believed to be infected with
Suspected case means a child who, on the basis of rec- ognized medical testing and evaluation, is thought to have a par- ticular adverse neonatal condition, birth defect, developmental disability or other severe disability, but the results of the testing and evaluation are not conclusive.