Notifiable disease guidelines

Overview

The notifiable disease management guidelines are developed by the Alberta government with input and advice from medical officers of health, public health nurses, public health inspectors, laboratories, and medical infectious disease specialists.

The guidelines are provided to support practitioners in meeting the communicable disease management requirements in the Public Health Act.

Notifiable disease surveillance reports

• Lyme disease (tick surveillance summary reports)
• Notifiable disease annual summary reports
• Seasonal influenza summary reports
• Sexually transmitted infections and HIV reports

Notifiable disease manual

• Notifiable Disease Report (NDR) Manual, 9th Edition
• Notifiable disease reporting references: MOH and Designate
• Notifiable disease reporting references: Laboratories
• Notifiable disease acronyms and definitions

Disease management guidelines

Access all the notifiable disease guidelines on Open Alberta.

• Acute Flaccid Paralysis
• Aeromonas
• Amoebiasis
• Anthrax
• Bacillus Cereus
• Botulism
• Brucellosis
• California Serogroup Infection Including:
  • Jamestown Canyon Virus
  • Snow Shoe Hare Virus
• Campylobacteriosis
• Candida Auris
• Carbapenemase Producing Organism
• Cerebrospinal Fluid Isolates
• Chancroid
• Chikungunya Virus
• Chlamydia (includes perinatally acquired)
• Cholera (O1 and O139)
• Clostridium difficile – Associated Infection
• Clostridium Perfringens
• Coronavirus – COVID-19
• Coronavirus – MERS/SARS
• Coronavirus – Novel
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
• Cryptosporidiosis
• Cyclosporiasis
• Cytomegalovirus, Congenital
• Dengue Fever
• Diphtheria
• Disease in Unusual Form
• Eastern Equine Encephalitis
• Ebola Virus Disease
• Echinococcosis (Alveolar)
• Enterovirus D68
• Escherichia coli (Verotoxigenic)
• Flavivirus (Other)
• Giardiasis
• Gonorrhea (includes perinatally acquired)
• Haemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS)
• Haemophilus Influenzae Invasive
• Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
• Hepatitis – Acute, Severe, of Unknown Origin in Children
• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B
• Hepatitis C – Acute
• Hepatitis C – Chronic
• Hepatitis E
• Herpes Simplex, Neonatal
• Histoplasmosis
• Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
• Influenza – Avian
• Influenza – Seasonal
• Japanese Encephalitis
• Legionellosis
• Leprosy
• Listeriosis
• Lyme Disease
• Lymphogranuloma Venereum
• Malaria
• Measles
• Meningococcal Disease, Invasive (IMD)
• Mpox
• Muco-Purulent Cervicitis
• Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children and Adolescents
• Mumps
• Non-Gonococcal Urethritis
• Norovirus
• Paratyphoid Fever
• Pertussis
• Plague
• Pneumococcal Disease, Invasive (IPD)
• Poliomyelitis
• Powassan Encephalitis
• Psittacosis
• Q-Fever
• Rabies
• Rare or Emerging Communicable Disease
• Respiratory Syncytial Virus
• Rickettsial Infections
• Rotavirus
• Rubella
• Rubella, Congenital Infection / Syndrome
• Salmonellosis
• Severe Acute Pulmonary Disease Associate with Electronic Cigarette Use
• Severe Respiratory Illness (SRI)
• Shellfish Poisoning
• Shigellosis
• Smallpox
• Louis Encephalitis
• Streptococcal Disease Group A Invasive
• Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis
• Syphilis
• Syphilis, Congenital
• Tetanus
• Toxoplasmosis, Congenital
• Trichinosis
• Tuberculosis
• Tularemia
• Typhoid Fever
• Varicella (Chickenpox)
• Vibrio Cholerae (non O1, non O139)
• Vibrio Parahaemolyticus
• Viral Haemorrhagic Fever Including:
  • Argentine Haemorrhagic Fever
  • Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever
  • Lassa Fever
  • Marburg Haemorrhagic Fever
  • Rift Valley Haemorrhagic Fever
• West Nile virus
• Western Equine Encephalitis
• Yellow Fever
• Yersiniosis
• Zika virus

HIV and STI forms and treatment

• HIV case reporting form (PDF, 86 KB)
• Sexually transmitted infections notification form (PDF, 143 KB)
• Sexually transmitted infections treatment guidelines

Medical Officer of Health forms

Forms to be used by Medical Officers of Health when last resort interventions related to communicable diseases, as prescribed under the Public Health Act, are necessary.

• Notice of recalcitrant patient (PDF, 53 KB)
• Certificate of a Medical Officer of Health (PDF, 53 KB)
• Order to Apprehend Recalcitrant Patient (PDF, 68 KB)
• Isolation Order (PDF, 69 KB)
• Cancellation of Isolation Order (PDF, 50 KB)
• Warrant for Examination (PDF, 13 KB)
• Order to Apprehend Isolation Patient (PDF, 51 KB)
• Memorandum of Transfer (PDF, 53 KB)

Forms and related documents

• Acute Severe Hepatitis (non-hepatitis A-E) of Unknown Origin in Children CMOH letter to Medical Officers of Health (PDF, 339 KB)
• Acute Hepatitis (non hepatitis A-E) case report form, PHAC – Severe, Unknown Origin in Children (PDF, 902 KB)
• Acute rheumatic fever medication payment coverage request form (DOCX, 115 KB)
• Carbapenem producing organism form (DOC, 37 KB)
• Carbapenem producing organism form definitions (PDF, 83 KB)
• COVID-19/Seasonal Influenza death and hospitalized case report (DOCX, 77 KB)
• COVID-19/Seasonal Influenza death and hospitalized case report definitions (PDF, 364 KB)
• Cyclospora – hypothesis generating questionnaire, PHAC (PDF, 548 KB)
• Enteric transmission risk assessment and exclusion table
• Enterovirus D68 enhanced surveillance form (DOCX, 116 KB)
• Hantavirus – enhanced surveillance form (DOCX, 117 KB)
• Hepatitis A – hypothesis generating questionnaire, PHAC (PDF, 807 KB)
• Listeria questionnaire and instructions (PHAC) (PDF, 328 KB)
• Lyme disease – laboratory tests
• Lyme disease – notes for clinicians
• Mpox Case Report Form (PDF, 1.1 MB)
• Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children and adolescents temporally related to COVID-19 – Case report form (DOCX, 88 KB)
• Outbreak reporting form (DOCX, 99 KB)
• Outbreak reporting form definitions (PDF, 796 KB)
• Outbreak reporting form tuberculosis definitions and instructions (PDF, 579 KB)
• Outbreak response protocol for unusual outbreaks
• Perinatally acquired notifiable disease enhanced report form (DOCX, 99 KB)
• Post exposure prophylaxis form – Hib, IMD, Pertussis (DOCX, 64 KB)
• Post-exposure management and prophylaxis guidelines – HIV, HBV, HCV and STIs
• Prenatal HIV: public health guidelines
• Prenatal screening guidelines
• Rabies prevention and control manual (PDF, 1 MB)
• Tuberculosis policy
• West Nile virus – notes for clinicians

Contact

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