# 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), Division: EENT-CONJ: Conjunctivitis

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Conjunctivitis must meet at least one of the following criteria:
Patient has pathogens cultured from purulent exudate obtained from the conjunctiva or contiguous tissues, such as eyelid, cornea, meibomian glands, or lacrimal glands
Patient has pain or redness of conjunctiva or around eye
AND at least one of the following:
WBCs and organisms seen on Gram’s stain of exudates
purulent exudates
positive antigen test (e.g. ELISA or IF for Chlamydia trachomatis, herpes simplex virus, adenovirus) on exudate or conjunctival scraping
multinucleated giant cells seen on microscopic examination of conjunctival exudate or scrapings
positive viral culture
diagnostic single antibody titer (IgM) or four-fold increase in paired sera (IgG) for pathogen

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2012/506/annex/division/3/division/3.1/division/3.1.6/division/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-506/annex/division-3/division-3.1/division-3.1.6/division-1
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