Congenital rubella syndrome CDC case definitions

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Suspected Case

An infant who does not meet the criteria for a probable or confirmed case but who has one or more of the following findings:

Probable Case

An infant who does not have laboratory confirmation of rubella infection but has at least two of the following, without a more plausible etiology:

OR An infant who does not have laboratory confirmation of rubella infection but has at least one or more of the following, without a more plausible etiology:

AND one or more of the following:

Confirmed Case

An infant with at least one of the symptoms clinically consistent with congenital rubella syndrome listed above; and laboratory evidence of congenital rubella infection demonstrated by:

  • Isolation of rubella virus or detection of rubella-specific immunoglogulin M (IgM) antibody, or infant rubella antibody level that persists at a higher level and for a longer period of time than expected from passive transfer of maternal antibody (i.e., rubella titer that does not drop at the expected rate of a two-fold decline per month), or a specimen that is PCR-positive for rubella virus.

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