We work to detect, investigate, control and prevent infectious diseases and disease outbreaks. Communicable Disease staff collects, analyzes and reports infectious disease data, and provides public health consultation and education for health care providers and the public.
Diseases
Colorado Department of Public health and Environment - Communicable Disease Manual
A
- Acute flaccid myelitis
- Animal bites
- Anthrax
- Arboviral Diseases
- Eastern equine encephalitis
- LaCrosse encephalitis virus
- Japanese encephalitis virus
- California encephalitis serogroup
- St. Louis encephalitis virus
- Western equine encephalitis virus
- Powassan virus and others
B
C
- Campylobacteriosis
- Candida auris (including Candida haemulonii)
- Chancroid
- Chikungunya
- Chlamydia
- Cholera
- CJD & other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs)
- Colorado tick fever
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Cyclosporiasis
D
E
- Encephalitis
- Enterobacteriaceae, carbapenem-resistant (CRE)
- Escherichia coli O157:H7 / Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli
G
H
- Haemophilus influenzae
- Hantavirus disease
- Hemolytic uremic syndrome if <18 years
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) / acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
I
L
- Leprosy (Hansen's Disease)
- Legionellosis
- Listeriosis
- Lyme disease
- Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV)
M
O
- Outbreaks: incl foodborne, water, person-to-person, healthcare settings
P
- Pertussis (whooping cough)
- Plague
- Poliomyelitis
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa, carbapenem-resistant
- Psittacosis
Q
R
- Rabies, human (suspected)
- Rickettsiosis (including RMSF and typhus)
- Rubella (acute infection, congenital)
S
- Salmonellosis
- Severe or novel coronavirus (MERS-CoV or SARS-CoV)
- Shigellosis
- Smallpox (Variola virus or Orthopox virus)
- Staphylococcus aureus, Vancomycin-resistant
- Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome
- Streptococcus pneumoniae
- Syphilis/Treponema pallidum (all reactive tests)
T
- Tetanus
- Tick-borne relapsing fever
- Toxic shock syndrome (non-streptococcal)
- Trichinosis
- Tuberculosis disease (active)
- Tularemia
- Typhoid fever