NOTE: A surveillance case definition is a set of uniform criteria used to define a disease for public health surveillance. Surveillance case definitions enable public health officials to classify and count cases consistently across reporting jurisdictions. Surveillance case definitions are not intended to be used by healthcare providers for making a clinical diagnosis or determining how to meet an individual patient’s health needs.
An acute illness with a) discrete onset of symptoms and b) jaundice or elevated serum aminotransferase levels.
Immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibody to hepatitis A virus (anti-HAV) positive
The 2000 case definition appearing on this page was re-published in the 2009 CSTE position statement 09-ID-39. Thus, the 2000 and 2010 versions of the case definition are identical.