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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-506/annex/division-3/division-3.1/division-3.1.7/division-2",
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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)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-506",
  "path": "annex/division/3/division/3.1/division/3.1.7/division/2",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "GI-GE: Gastroenteritis (excl. CDI)",
  "text": "Gastroenteritis must meet at least one of the following criteria:\nPatient has an acute onset of diarrhoea (liquid stools for more than 12 hours) with or without vomiting or fever (> 38 °C) and no likely non-infectious cause (e.g. diagnostic tests, therapeutic regimen other than antimicrobial agents, acute exacerbation of a chronic condition, or psychological stress)\nPatient has at least two of the following signs or symptoms with no other recognised cause: nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, fever (> 38 °C), or headache\nAND at least one of the following:\nan enteric pathogen is cultured from stool or rectal swab\nan enteric pathogen is detected by routine or electron microscopy\nan enteric pathogen is detected by antigen or antibody assay on blood or faeces\nevidence of an enteric pathogen is detected by cytopathic changes in tissue culture (toxin assay)\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/3.1.7/division/2",
    "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."
}