Reporting Enteric Escherichia Coli Infection

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What to report
How to report
Submitting clinical materials 
Who is required to report
More about infectious disease reporting

What to report

Enteric Escherichia coli infection (all E. coli infections that cause enteric/intestinal symptoms, such as diarrhea, abdominal discomfort, nausea, and vomiting; including: E. coli O157:H7, other Shiga toxin-producing (enterohemorrhagic) E. coli, enteropathogenic E. coli, enteroinvasive E. coli, enteroaggregative E. coli, enterotoxigenic E. coli, or other pathogenic E. coli) must be reported to MDH within one working day.

Case definition

• CDC: Escherichia coli Case Definitions
  Case definition from CDC's National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (NNDSS) for Escherichia coli.

How to report enteric Escherichia coli infection

• Foodborne (Enteric) Disease Reporting Form
  The Foodborne (Enteric) Disease Reporting Form can be used to report this disease. 
  
   
• Phone
  Any reportable infectious disease may be reported by phone to 651-201-5414 or 877-676-5414.
   

Other reporting: reporting suspected foodborne and waterborne illness

• Foodborne and Waterborne Illness Hotline
  MDH's foodborne and waterborne illness hotline may be used by anyone to report a suspected case of foodborne or waterborne illness. 
  Your call to the hotline helps us identify foodborne and waterborne illness outbreaks in Minnesota and will help prevent the spread of illness to others.

Submitting clinical materials

For enteric Escherichia coli infection, submission of clinical materials (isolate, if available) to MDH is required by rule.

• Clinical Materials 
  Clinical materials must be submitted according to these guidelines.

Who is required to report

• Health care practitioners (health care facilities, medical laboratories, and in certain circumstances veterinarians and veterinary medical laboratories) are required to report disease to the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) under Minnesota state law.
  • Unless previously reported, every licensed health care provider who provides care to any patient who has, is suspected of having, or has died from a reportable disease is required to report.
• Any person in charge of any institution, school, child care facility, or camp is also required to report disease to MDH.
   
• Persons Required to Report Disease
  More information about who is required to report disease.

More about infectious disease reporting

• Infectious Disease Reporting
  Find out which infectious diseases must be reported by law in Minnesota, who is required to report diseases, how each disease can be reported, and download the appropriate forms.

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