Fact sheets

Gastroenteritis fact sheet (PDF 207.12KB)

Campylobacter (PDF 198.69KB)

Cholera (PDF 196.17KB)

Cryptosporidiosis (PDF 202KB)
 
Giardia (PDF 195.31KB)

 Hepatitis A (PDF 63.75KB)

 Listeria (PDF 202.1KB)

Norovirus (PDF 193.47KB)

Salmonellosis (PDF 201.21KB)

Shiga/Verotoxin producing E.coli (STEC/VTEC and HUS) (PDF 204.34KB)
 
Shigellosis, includes dysentery (PDF 196.57KB)

Typhoid and paratyphoid(PDF 197.84KB) 

Public health action

Sporadic cases

• Communicable Disease Guidelines, for teachers, childcare workers, local government authorities and medical practitioners. Department of Health, Western Australia

• Therapeutic Guidelines: Antibiotic. Therapeutic Guidelines Limited: Melbourne

• Australian Immunisation Handbook

• OD 0103/08 Public Health Intervention for Sporadic Enteric Notifications

• OD 0303/10 Guidelines for exclusion of people with enteric infections and their contacts from work, school and child-care settings 

Disease clusters or outbreaks

• Report gastroenteritis clusters or outbreaks (2 or more linked cases) to your Population Health Unit.

• Western Australian guidelines and reporting forms for the management of outbreaks of gastroenteritis in residential care facilities 

Additional sources of information

• For disease-specific information see Infectious diseases A-Z for health professionals.

• Control of Communicable Diseases Manual

• WA infectious disease data

Exclusion

In general, people who are still feeling ill from gastroenteritis should not go to work, school, or activities involving groups of people until symptoms have stopped for 24 hours and have normal stools. However, people who are at high risk of spreading their infection or work in a high risk setting (i.e. workers in health care, residential care and child care, food handlers, young children in child care, and cases who are faecally incontinent) should not go to work or childcare until symptoms have stopped for 48 hours and have normal stools.

Practice enteric precautions for hospitalised or institutionalised patients.

Additional precautions and clearance specimens are required for cases +/- contacts of dysentery, hepatitis A, paratyphoid, STEC/VTEC, typhoid, refer to disease-specific information in Infectious diseases A-Z for health professionals.