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The following specified Reportable Disease, (Ontario Regulation 559/91 and
amendments under the
Health Protection and Promotion Act, 1990) is to be reported to
the Local Medical Office of Health.
Note: Diseases marked
and all respiratory infection outbreaks in institutions should be
reported
immediately to the Medical Officer of Health by telephone. Other diseases are to
be reported
the next working day.
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Legionellosis factsheet
Surveillance Case Definition: Legionellosis
Confirmed Case: Clinically compatible signs and symptoms with:
a) isolation of Legionella pneumophilia organism or antigen detection
from a site which is normally sterile, sputum, or bronchial
washings or
b) a four-fold or greater rise in antibody titre to 1:128 against L.
pneumophilia; or
c) a static or single antibody titre of 1:256 |
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