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, dark urine or elevated serum aminotransferase levels (ALT) >200 IU/L
Immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibody to hepatitis A virus (anti-HAV) positive