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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-506/annex/division-3/division-3.1/division-3.1.5/division-1",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2012/506",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision of 8 August 2012 amending Decision 2002/253/EC laying down case definitions for reporting communicable diseases to the Community network under Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document C(2012) 5538) (Text with EEA relevance) (2012/506/EU)",
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  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "CVS-VASC: Arterial or venous infection",
  "text": "Arterial or venous infection must meet at least one of the following criteria:\nPatient has organisms cultured from arteries or veins removed during a surgical operation\nAND blood culture not done or no organisms cultured from blood\nPatient has evidence of arterial or venous infection seen during a surgical operation or histopathologic examination\nPatient has at least one of the following signs or symptoms with no other recognised cause: fever (> 38 °C), pain, erythema, or heat at involved vascular site\nAND more than 15 colonies cultured from intravascular cannula tip using semiquantitative culture method\nAND blood culture not done or no organisms cultured from blood\nPatient has purulent drainage at involved vascular site\nAND blood culture not done or no organisms cultured from blood",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2012/506/annex/division/3/division/3.1/division/3.1.5/division/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:15:21.976168+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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