National Case Surveillance for Enteric Bacterial Disease
The Enteric Diseases Epidemiology Branch (EDEB), Division of Foodborne, Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases is responsible for surveillance of bacterial enteric pathogens.
National case surveillance encompasses two systems administered outside EDEB: the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS), which is clinical case-based, and the Public Health Laboratory Information System (PHLIS), which is a laboratory isolation-based reporting system. The laboratory-based system alone includes important data on pathogen characteristics such as serotype for Salmonella, Shigella, and Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 isolates. Serotype information for these pathogens is crucial for surveillance, outbreak detection, and investigation. PHLIS also includes some pathogens that are not nationally notifiable, but may be notifiable at the state level. EDEB primarily collects information for botulism, typhoid fever, cholera and other Vibrio illnesses, listeriosis, and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, non-O157.
The following table describes the pathogens under surveillance and the surveillance systems administered by the Enteric Diseases Epidemiology Branch in which reports of cases or isolates are captured:
- Disease (Pathogen)
- Surveillance System, Summaries and Case Report Forms
- Botulism (Clostridium botulinum)
- Listeriosis (Listeria)
- Salmonellosis (Salmonella, non-Typhi)
- Typhoid fever (Salmonella Typhi)
- Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), non O-157
- Shigellosis (Shigella)
- Cholera (Vibrio cholerae, toxigenic)
- Vibriosis (Vibrio)
- National Botulism Surveillance System
- Listeria Initiative
- National Salmonella Surveillance System (PHLIS)
- National Typhoid Fever Surveillance
- National E. coli Reference Laboratory at CDC
- National Shigella Surveillance System (PHLIS)
- Cholera and Other Vibrio Illness Surveillance System (COVIS )
Annual Reports From the National Surveillance Systems
- Bacterial Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases National Case Surveillance, Annual Report, 2005 (PDF - 691KB)
- Bacterial Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases National Case Surveillance, Annual Report, 2004 (PDF - 709KB)
- Bacterial Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases National Case Surveillance, Annual Report, 2003 (PDF - 208KB)
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Content Source: National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases (ZVED)