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Communicable Disease Reporting

Announcements

On January 1st, 2026, updates to the Indiana Reportable Disease List for Healthcare Providers and Hospitals and the Indiana Reportable Result/Pathogen List for Laboratories went into effect. Attached below, you will find the updated reportable disease lists and the summary of changes made. If you have any questions, please contact Lunden Espinosa LEspinosa@health.in.gov and Jim Sainsbury JSainsbury@health.in.gov.

  1. Indiana Reportable Disease List for Healthcare Providers and Hospitals
  2. Indiana Reportable Result/Pathogen List for Laboratories
  3. Summary of Reporting Changes Document

April 15, 2024: The following resources for use in submitting Electronic Lab Reports (ELR) using the guidelines established by HL7 Messaging standards, version 2.5.1 are now available. Please contact NBS@health.in.gov with any questions.

  1. HL7 Lab Checklist for ELR
  2. Supplemental Resources for HL7 Lab Checklist

Indiana Reportable Disease List for Healthcare Providers and Hospitals

Indiana Reportable Result/Pathogen List for Laboratories

  • Report Immediately Upon Suspicion

    How to Report

    For immediate reporting call: (317) 233-7125 (weekdays 8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. EST) or (317) 233-1325 (after hours)

    Please also report via electronic laboratory reporting.

    For facilities unable to submit via ELR, please fax reports to 317-234-2812.


    • Bacillus anthracis
    • Burkholderia mallei
    • Burkholderia pseudomallei
    • Clostridium botulinum
    • Cochliomyia hominivorax
    • Corynebacterium diphtheriae
    • Eastern equine encephalitis virus
    • Francisella tularensis
    • Measles virus
    • Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV)
    • Naegleria fowleri
    • Neisseria meningitidis, invasive disease
    • Novel influenza A
    • Poliovirus
    • Rabies virus
    • Rubella virus
    • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV)
    • Smallpox (variola) virus
    • Vibrio cholerae O1, O139, or toxigenic
    • Viral hemorrhagic fever
      • Ebola virus
      • Marburg virus
    • Viral hemorrhagic fever, other
      • Chapare virus
      • Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus
      • Guanarito virus
      • Junin virus
      • Lassa virus
      • Lujo virus
      • Machupo virus
      • Rift Valley fever virus
      • Sabia virus
    • Yersinia pestis
  • Report Within One Working Day

    How to Report

    Report via electronic laboratory reporting.

    For facilities unable to submit via ELR, please fax reports to 317-234-2812.


    • Anaplasma phagocytophilium
    • Arboviruses including, but not limited to:
      • California serogroup viruses
      • Chikungunya virus
      • Dengue virus
      • Heartland virus
      • Jamestown Canyon virus
      • Japanese encephalitis virus
      • La Crosse virus
      • Oropouche virus
      • Powassan virus
      • St.Louis encephalitis virus
      • Western equine encephalitis virus
      • West Nile virus
      • Yellow fever virus
      • Zika virus
    • Babesia spp.
    • Bordetella pertussis
    • Borrelia burgdorferi
    • Brucella spp.
    • Campylobacter spp.
    • Candida auris
    • Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Acinetobacter baumannii*
    • Chlamydia psittaci
    • Chlamydia trachomatis
      • Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) (C. trachomatis serotypes L1, L2, or L3)
    • Clostridium tetani
    • Coccidioides spp.
    • Coxiella burnetii
    • Cronobacter spp., infants (younger than 1 year of age)
    • Cryptosporidium spp.
    • Cyclospora cayetanensis
    • Ehrlichia spp.
    • Escherichia coli (E. coli) infection (Shiga toxin-producing (STEC), including, but not limited to, E. coli O157, E. coli O157:H7, non-O157 E. coli, and Shiga toxin detected)
    • Giardia spp.
    • Grimontia hollisae (Vibrio hollisae)
    • Haemophilus ducreyi
    • Haemophilus influenzae, invasive disease*
    • Hantavirus, including Sin Nombre virus, Seoul virus, and other hantaviruses
    • Hepatitis, viral, Type A, Anti-HAV IgM or RNA detected
    • Hepatitis, viral, Type B
    • Hepatitis, viral, Type C
    • Hepatitis, viral, Type Delta
    • Hepatitis, viral, Type E, Anti-HEC IgM and IgG
    • Hepatitis, viral, unspecified
    • Histoplasma capsulatum
    • HIV and related retroviruses
    • Influenza viruses
    • Interferon gamma release assay (IGRA) for tuberculosis (positive results only)
    • Legionella spp.
    • Leptospira spp.
    • Mpox (Monkeypox) virus, including Non-variola Orthopox virus and Orthopox virus
    • Mumps virus
    • Mycobacterium leprae
    • Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
    • Neisseria gonorrhoeae (list anatomic site to determine if disseminated infection)*
    • Pandrug-resistant Organisms*
    • Photobacterium damselae (Vibrio damsela)
    • Plasmodium spp.
    • Pneumocystis carinii (Pneumocystis pneumonia)
    • Rickettsia (non-rickettsii spp.)
    • Rickettsia rickettsii
    • Salmonella spp. (non-typhoidal)*
    • Salmonella serotype Paratyphi (Paratyphoid fever)*
    • Salmonella serotype Typhi (Typhoid fever)*
    • SARS-CoV-2**
    • Shigella spp.*
    • Streptococcus, group A (Streptococcus pyogenes), invasive disease*
    • Streptococcus pneumoniae, invasive disease*
    • Treponema pallidum
    • Trichinella spiralis
    • Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) and Vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA)*
    • Varicella-zoster virus
    • Vibrio spp.
    • Yersinia spp., Enterocolitica, Pseudotuberculosis

    * Include antimicrobial susceptibility testing
    ** Only laboratories and testing sites that submit results via electronic lab reporting (ELR)
    Further guidance on the second page of the Indiana Reportable Result/Pathogen List for Laboratories

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Page last reviewed/updated: January 2026