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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-945/annex-II/division-4/division-4.1/division-4.1.5/division-1",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2018/945",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/945 of 22 June 2018 on the communicable diseases and related special health issues to be covered by epidemiological surveillance as well as relevant case definitions (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-945",
  "path": "annex/II/division/4/division/4.1/division/4.1.5/division/1",
  "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 1 of the following signs or symptoms with no other recognized 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": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2018/945/annex/II/division/4/division/4.1/division/4.1.5/division/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:13:03.598650+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."
}