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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-945/annex-II/division-4/division-4.1/division-4.1.6/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/4.1.6/division/1",
  "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 1 of the following:\nWBCs and organisms seen on Gram's stain of exudates\npurulent exudates\npositive antigen test (for example, 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 titre (IgM) or 4-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/2018/945/annex/II/division/4/division/4.1/division/4.1.6/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."
}