Type of Isolation Needed

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Commonly-Searched Organisms/Infections:

Acute Respiratory Illness in Children (During Winter Respiratory Virus Season)

C. difficile

COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2)

CRE (Carbepenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae)

Influenza (Seasonal)

Meningococcal meningitis (confirmed or suspected)M

MRSA (Only if wound without ability to cover or admitted to 10T3, 11N, OTU, NICU, PCICU, PHO, PCARD)

MRSE (Coagulase-Negative Staphylococcus)

Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter

Pertussis

RSV

Scabies/Lice

Tuberculosis (Pulmonary)

Varicella (Chickenpox/Disseminated Zoster/Single Dermatome Zoster in Immunocompromised Patient)

VRE (Only if wound without ability to cover or admitted to 10T3, 11N, OTU, NICU, PCICU, PHO, PCARD)

A

Abscess:

• Adult and Children: No dressing or adequate containment of drainage

Acinetobacter baumannii, multidrug-resistant

Acquired human immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)

Acute Respiratory Illness in Children (During Winter Respiratory Virus Season)

• Adenovirus
• Conjunctivitis
• Gastroenteritis

Amebiasis

Anthrax: [*NOTIFY INFECTION PREVENTION ASAP*]

• Cutaneous
• Pulmonary
• Aerosolizable spore-containing powder or other substance

Antibiotic-associated colitis (see Clostridioides difficile)

Aspergillosis

Avian influenza (see Influenza, avian)

B

Blastomycosis

Botulism

Bronchiolitis (see Respiratory infections in infants and young children)

C

Campylobacter gastroenteritis (see Gastroenteritis)

Candidiasis, all forms including mucocutaneous

Cat-scratch fever (benign inoculation lymphoreticulosis)

Chickenpox (see Herpes Zoster)

Cholera (see Gastroenteritis)

Clostridioides difficile

Coccidioidomycosis

Conjunctivitis:

Acute bacterial

• Chlamydia
• Gonococcal
• Acute viral (acute hemorrhagic)

Coronavirus

• Non-SARS, COVID-19 or MERS Coronavirus (e.g. OC43 or NL63)
• SARS, COVID-19 or MERS-associated (see SARS or COVID-19 or MERS)

Coxsackie virus disease (see Enteroviral infections)

CRE (Carbepenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae) -- See MDRO

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, CJD, vCJD [*NOTIFY INFECTION PREVENTION ASAP*]

Croup (see Respiratory infections in infants and young children)

Cryptococcosis

Cryptosporidiosis (see Gastroenteritis)

Cytomegalovirus infection, neonatal or immunosuppressed

D

Diarrhea, acute-infective etiology suspected (see Gastroenteritis)

E

Ebola virus [*NOTIFY INFECTION PREVENTION ASAP*]

Echovirus (see Enteroviral infections)

Encephalitis or encephalomyelitis (see specific etiologic agents)

Enterococcus species (see Multidrug-resistant organisms if epidemiologically significant or vancomycin resistant)

Enterocolitis, C. difficile (see C. difficile, Gastroenteritis)

Enteroviral infections

Epiglottitis, due to Haemophilus influenzae type b

Epstein-Barr virus infection, including infectious mononucleosis

Erythema infectiosum (also see Parvovirus B19)

F

Francisella tularensis

Furunculosis, staphylococcal:

• Infants and young children
• MRSA

G

Gastroenteritis:

• Adenovirus
• Campylobacter species
• Cholera
• C. difficile
• Cryptosporidium species
• E. coli:
  • Enteropathogenic O157:H7 and other shiga toxin-producing strains
  • Other species
• Giardia lamblia
• Noroviruses (see Noroviruses)
• Rotavirus
• Salmonella species (including S. typhi)
• Shigella species
• Vibrio parahaemolyticus
• Viral (if not covered elsewhere)
• Yersinia enterocolitica

Giardiasis (see Gastroenteritis)

Gonorrhea

H

Haemophilus influenzae type b, known or suspected

Hand, foot, and mouth disease (see Enteroviral infections)

Hepatitis, viral:

• Type A:
  • Diapered or incontinent patients
• Type B-HbsAg positive; acute or chronic
• Type C and other unspecified non-A, non-B
• Type D (seen only with hepatitis B)
• Type E:
  • Diapered or incontinent patients
• Type G

Herpes simplex (HSV):

• Encephalitis
• Mucocutaneous, disseminated or primary, severe
• Mucocutaneous, recurrent (skin, oral, genital)
• Neonatal

Herpes zoster (VZV, varicella-zoster, shingles):

• Disseminated disease in any patient
• Localized disease in immunocompromised patient
• Localized disease in patient with intact immune system

Histoplasmosis

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

Human metapneumovirus

I

Impetigo

Infectious mononucleosis

Influenza:

• Human (seasonal influenza)
• Pandemic influenza (including avian influenza) [*NOTIFY INFECTION PREVENTION ASAP*]

K

Kawasaki syndrome

L

Legionnaires disease/Legionella

Lice:

• Head (pediculosis)
• Body
• Pubic

Listeriosis

Lyme disease

M

Malaria

Measles (rubeola) [*NOTIFY INFECTION PREVENTION ASAP*]

Meningitis:

• Aseptic (nonbacterial or viral; also see Enteroviral infections):
  • Infants and young children
  • All others
• Bacterial, gram-negative enteric, (not multidrug-resistant)
• Fungal
• Haemophilus influenzae, type b known or suspected
• Listeria monocytogenes
• Neisseria meningitidis (meningococcal) known or suspected
• Streptococcus pneumoniae
• M. tuberculosis
• Other diagnosed bacterial (if not multidrug-resistant organism or noted elsewhere in this section)
• Unknown pathogen, suspected bacterial

Meningococcal disease: sepsis, pneumonia, meningitis

Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) [*NOTIFY INFECTION PREVENTION ASAP*]

Mpox [*NOTIFY INFECTION PREVENTION ASAP*]

Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs), infection or colonization (e.g., MRSA, VRE, VISA/VRSA, CRE, Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, ESBLs) *MRSA and VRE: Only if wound without ability to cover or admitted to 10T3, OTU, NICU, PCICU, PHO, PCARD

Mumps (infectious parotitis)

Mycobacteria, nontuberculosis (atypical)

Mycoplasma pneumonia

N

Necrotizing enterocolitis

Norovirus

Norwalk agent gastroenteritis (see Gastroenteritis)

P

Parainfluenza virus infection

Parvovirus B19

Parechovirus (see Enterovirus)

Pediculosis (lice)

Pertussis (whooping cough)

Plague (Yersinia pestis) [*NOTIFY INFECTION PREVENTION ASAP*]

• Bubonic
• Pneumonic

Pneumonia:

• Adenovirus
• Bacterial not listed elsewhere (including gram-negative bacterial)
• Burkholderia cepacia
• Chlamydia
• Fungal
• Haemophilus influenzae, type b
  • Adults
  • Infants and children
• Legionella spp.
• Meningococcal
• Multidrug-resistant bacterial (see Multidrug-resistant organisms)
• Mycoplasma (primary atypical pneumonia)
• Pneumococcal pneumonia
• Pneumocystis jiroveci (Pneumocystis carinii)
• Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA)
• Streptococcus, group A
• Varicella-zoster (See Herpes Zoster)
• Viral
  • Adults
  • Infants and young children (see Respiratory infectious disease, acute)

Prion disease (See Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease)

Q

Q fever

R

Rabies [*NOTIFY INFECTION PREVENTION ASAP*]

Resistant bacterial infection or colonization (see Multidrug-resistant organisms)

Respiratory infectious disease, acute (if not covered elsewhere):

• Adults (empiric)
• Infants and young children

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)

Rheumatic fever

Rhinovirus/Enterovirus

Rickettsial fevers, tickborne (Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tickborne typhus fever)

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

Rotavirus infection (see Gastroenteritis)

Rubeola (see Measles)

S

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) 

Salmonellosis (see Gastroenteritis)

Scabies

Smallpox (variola; see Vaccinia for management of vaccinated persons) [*NOTIFY INFECTION PREVENTION ASAP*]

Staphylococcal disease (S. aureus):

• Skin, wound, or burn:
  • No dressing or drainage not adequately contained
• Enterocolitis
• Multidrug-resistant (see Multidrug-resistant organisms)
• Pneumonia (non-MRSA)
• Scalded skin syndrome
• Toxic shock syndrome (due to MRSA)

Streptococcal disease (group A streptococcus):

• Skin, wound, or burn:
  • No dressing or dressing does not contain wound drainage adequately
• Endometritis (puerperal sepsis)
• Pharyngitis in infants and young children
• Pneumonia
• Scarlet fever in infants and young children
• Serious invasive disease
• Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome (suspected or confirmed)

Streptococcal disease (group B streptococcus), neonatal

Streptococcal disease (not group A or B) unless covered elsewhere

Strongyloidiasis

Syphilis:

Latent (tertiary) and seropositivity without lesions
Skin and mucous membrane, including congenital, primary, secondary

T

Toxic shock syndrome (empiric; if pathogen known, see staphylococcal disease or streptococcal disease)

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (see Creutzfeld-Jacob disease, CJD, vCJD)

Tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis):

• Extrapulmonary, draining lesion
• Extrapulmonary, no draining lesion or evidence for pulmonary disease
• Pulmonary or laryngeal disease, confirmed
• Pulmonary or laryngeal disease, suspected
• Skin-test positive with no evidence of current active disease

Tularemia

U

Urinary tract infection (including pyelonephritis), with or without urinary catheter, non-MDR organism

V

Vaccinia (smallpox vaccination complications): [*NOTIFY INFECTION PREVENTION ASAP*]

• Eczema vaccinatum
• Fetal vaccinia
• Generalized vaccinia
• Progressive vaccinia
• Postvaccinia encephalitis
• Blepharitis or conjunctivitis
• Iritis or keratitis
• Vaccinia-associated erythema multiforme (Stevens Johnson Syndrome)

Varicella (see Herpes Zoster)

Variola (see Smallpox)

Viral hemorrhagic fevers (e.g. Lassa, Ebola, Marberg Viruses) [*NOTIFY INFECTION PREVENTION ASAP*]

Viral respiratory diseases (not covered elsewhere):

• Adults
• Infants and young children (see Respiratory infectious disease, acute)

W

Whooping cough (see Pertussis)

Wound infections:

• Draining and no dressing or dressing does not contain drainage adequately

Y

Yellow fever

Yersinia enterocolitica gastroenteritis (see gastroenteritis)

Z

Zoster (varicella-zoster) (see Herpes zoster)