Bacterial Infectious Disease Diagnostic Tests and Analysis
Overview
- Diagnosis, monitoring, and analysis of approximately 40 types of bacterial pathogens, including class 1 to 4 notifiable infectious diseases
- Operated by categorizing into 6 types of infectious diseases based on transmission routes (waterborne/foodborne infections, respiratory infections, zoonotic bacterial and rickettsial infections, antibiotic-resistant infections, sexually transmitted infections, and other infections).
Types of Waterborne and Foodborne Disease Pathogens
Table 1 | Types of Waterborne and Foodborne Disease Pathogens
| Category | Type |
|---|---|
| Class 2 (5 types) | vCholera, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, bacterial dysentery, and enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) infections |
| Class 3 (1 types) | Vibrio vulnificus septicemia |
| Class 4 (11 types) | Salmonella infection, enterotoxigenic Vibrio infection, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) infection, enteroinvasive Escherichia coli (EIEC) infection, enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) infection, Campylobacter infection, Clostridium perfringens infection, Staphylococcus aureus infection, Bacillus cereus infection, Yersinia enterocolitica infection, Listeria monocytogenes infection |
Respiratory Disease Pathogens
Table 2 | Types of Respiratory Disease Pathogens
| Category | Type |
|---|---|
| Class 1 (1 types) | Diphtheria |
| Class 2 (6 types) | Tuberculosis, whooping cough, meningococcal infections, Haemophilus influenzae type b, pneumococcal infections, scarlet fever |
| Class 3 (1 types) | Legionnaires’ disease |
| Class 4 (2 types) | Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection, Chlamydia pneumoniae infection |
Zoonotic Bacterial Diseases and Rickettsial Disease Pathogens
Table 3 | Types of Zoonotic Bacterial Diseases and Rickettsial Disease Pathogens
| Category | Type |
|---|---|
| Class 3 (8 types) | Epidemic typhus, rickettsialpox, scrub typhus, leptospirosis, brucellosis Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), Q fever, Lyme disease |
| Non-regulated (4 types) | Bartonellosis, anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis, erythema |
Antibiotic-resistant Bacterial Disease Pathogens
Table 4 | Types of Antibiotic-resistant Disease Pathogens
| Category | Type |
|---|---|
| Class 2 (2 types) | Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) infections, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) infections |
| Class 4 (4 types) | Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) infections, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections, multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (MRPA) infections, multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (MRAB) infections |
Sexually transmitted disease pathogens
Table 5 | Types of Sexually Transmitted Disease Pathogens.
| Category | Type |
|---|---|
| Class 4 (4 types) | Syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia infection, chancroid |
Status of Diagnostic Confirmation for Bacterial Pathogens
- Diagnostic confirmation of Class 1 to Class 4 and non-regulated bacterial infectious disease pathogens (30 types including enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli)
Table 6 | Yearly Diagnostic Confirmation of Bacterial Infectious Disease Pathogens
(Unit: cases)
| Category | Pathogen | Year | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | ||
| Waterborne Foodborne | Pathogenic Escherichia coli including enterohemorrhagic E. coli | 386 | 813 | 741 |
| Salmonella | 532 | 909 | 976 | |
| Campylobacter | 190 | 179 | 170 | |
| Clostridium | 234 | 390 | 282 | |
| Antimicrobial resistance | Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) | 1 | 5 | 3 | |
| Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) | 9 | 23 | 1 | |
| Respiratory | Tuberculosis | 101 | 92 | 98 |
| Scarlet fever | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Diphtheria | 0 | 0 | 8 | |
| Pertussis | 0 | 0 | 8 | |
| Legionnaires’ disease | 0 | 0 | 10 | |
| Meningococcal infections | 0 | 14 | 15 | |
| Haemophilus influenzae type b | 25 | 112 | 95 | |
| Pneumococcal infections | 166 | 221 | 267 | |
| Chlamydia pneumonia infections | 18 | 9 | 2 | |
| Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Zoonotic | brucellosis | 35 | 71 | 49 |
| Q fever | 144 | 177 | 15 | |
| Leptospirosis | 85 | 91 | 71 | |
| Lyme disease | 23 | 19 | 24 | |
| Rickettsial | Scrub typhus | 273 | 389 | 13 |
| Epidemic typhus | 4 | 3 | 4 | |
| Typhus fever | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| Prion disease | Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease | 364 | 844 | 813 |
| Non-regulated infectious diseases | Bartonellosis | 358 | 417 | 553 |
| Anaplasmosis | 1,016 | 1161 | 681 | |
| Ehrlichiosis | 10 | 38 | 21 | |
| Erythema infectiosum | 51 | 145 | 90 | |
| Total | 3,610 | 6,124 | 5,012 | |