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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-506/annex/division-3/division-3.1/division-3.1.6/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": "EENT-CONJ: Conjunctivitis",
  "text": "Conjunctivitis must meet at least one of the following criteria:\nPatient has pathogens cultured from purulent exudate obtained from the conjunctiva or contiguous tissues, such as eyelid, cornea, meibomian glands, or lacrimal glands\nPatient has pain or redness of conjunctiva or around eye\nAND at least one of the following:\nWBCs and organisms seen on Gram’s stain of exudates\npurulent exudates\npositive antigen test (e.g. ELISA or IF for Chlamydia trachomatis, herpes simplex virus, adenovirus) on exudate or conjunctival scraping\nmultinucleated giant cells seen on microscopic examination of conjunctival exudate or scrapings\npositive viral culture\ndiagnostic single antibody titer (IgM) or four-fold increase in paired sera (IgG) for pathogen",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2012/506/annex/division/3/division/3.1/division/3.1.6/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."
}