Infectious and Parasitic Diseases

Practice Guidelines

• Practice Guidelines - Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
• Infectious Diseases Practice Guidelines - Medscape
• Practice Guidelines from the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA)

Associations and Organizations

• American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
• American Society of Parasitologists
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Health Topics A to Z
  • Prevention Guidelines
    • Database
    • Topics
    • Titles
    • Alphabetical Guidelines
• Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
• National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID)
  • Division of AIDS, STD and TB Laboratory Resaearch (DASTLR)
    • Bacterial Diseases Branch
    • Hematologic Diseases Branch
    • HIV Immunology and Diagnostics Branch
    • HIV/AIDS and Retrovirology Branch
    • Mycobacteriology (Tb) Branch
  • Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases (DBMD)
    • Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases
  • Division of Parasitic Diseases (DPD)
    • Parasitic Diseases
  • Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases (DVBID)
  • Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases (DVRD)
  • Division of Quarantine
  • Diseases, Prevention and Program Areas Listing
  • Prevention Strategy for the United States
  • Careful Antibiotic Use to Prevent Resistance (C.A.USE)
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID)
  • National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID) - CDC
  • Videotape on Handwashing and Diapering
  • ABC's of Safe and Healthy Child Care
    • Childhood Diseases and Conditions
    • Injuries in the Child Care Setting
• National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • Health Information
    • Index
  • Clinical Research Studies 
  • Rare Diseases
• National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
  • Health Care and Patient Information
  •  
• Center for Complex Infectious Diseases (CCID)
• Introduction to Viruses
• Big Picture Book of Viruses - Tulane University
  • All the Virology on the WWW
  • Course Notes
• Additional Viruses
• World Health Organization
• Division of Control of Tropical Diseases

Glossary

• List of bacterial names with standing in nomenclature

General Information

• Bacterial Diseases - National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCIDOD)
• Bad Bug Book Introduction to Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins - FDA
• Biology and Pathology of Prion Diseases
• Bug Bytes - LSU Medical Center
• Bugs in the News!
• Bugs on the Web
• Cat and Dog Bites - American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
• Cells alive!
• Common Cold
• Communicable Diseases - New York State Department of Health
• Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre - England and Wales
• Communicable Disease Prevention & Control
• Communicable Diseases - Australia
• Department of Tropical Medicine - Tulane University
• Disease Weekly
• Division of Infectious Disease (IdWEB) - Emory University
• DNA Vaccine Web
• Double Helix -   National Foundation for Infectious Disease
• Emergence of Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella enterica in the U.S. -- NEJM 1998; 338 1333-1338 - May 7 1998
• Emerging and other Communicable Diseases - WHO
• Emerging Infection Information Network (EIINet) - Yale University
• Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal  - National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID) - CDC
  • Links
  • Prevention Strategy  
• Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases -  Stanford Center for TB Research
• Emerging Infection - Yale University Medical School
• Food-Borne Pathogenic Microorganisms - Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• FluWatch
• Global Microbial Threats - NSTC Committee on International Science
• Health Care Workers Avoiding Infections at Work - American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
• Hospital Infections Program - CDC
• Immunology - Electronic Textbook of Dermatology
• Index -Infectious Disease
• Infectious Diseases in Children
• Infectious Disease News
• Infectious Disease Weekly - Publication
• Infectious Diseases - US Information Agency
• Infectious Disease WebLink
• Infectious Diseases - Mayo Health Oasis, Mayo Clinic
• Infectious Diseases - Karolinska Institutet
  • Bacterial and Fungal Diseases
  • Virus Diseases
  • Parasitic Diseases
• Infectious Diseases in Children - Newsletter
• Introduction to the Bacteria
• MedWeb: Infectious Diseases
• Meningitis Foundation of America
• Microbial Underground
• Microbial Underground! - Louisiana State University
• Microbiology on the Net
• National Center for HIV, STD & TB Prevention
• National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) - NIH
• Outbreak
• Outbreaks - WHO
• Parisitology:
  • Ameridan Society of Parasitologists
  • Atlas of Medical Parisitology
  • Malaria Foundation
  • Parasites - Electronic Textbook of Dermatology
  • Parasitology
  • Tropical Diseases Ring
  • Tropical Parisitology - Fred R. Opperdoes
  • WormLearn - Dr. Peter Darben
  • National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID)
    • Division of Parasitic Diseases (DPD)
    • Parasitic Diseases
  • Prevent Transmission of Intestinal Roundworms from Pets to People - CDC
• Pets and Parasites - American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
• Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED)
• Repeated Infections in Children - American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
• Taxonomy - Univ. Texas - Houston Medical School
• Viremia Page - University of Umea, Umea, Sweden
• What You Should Know About Infectious Disease - Univ. Cal., San Francisco

See: 

• 487 Influenza - Extensive references

• 042 Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (HIV / AIDS) - Extensive references

001 Cholera

• Cholera - New York State Department of Health
• Cholera
• Cholera and Epidemic Dysentery - World Health Organization (WHO)
  • Cholera Fact Sheets
  • Epidemic Dysentery
  • Cholera Basic Facts for Travellers
    • What is Cholera?
    • What should I do if I think I may have cholera?
    • Where are the outbreaks of cholera?
    • Do vaccinations work against cholera?
    • What can I do to avoid cholera?
• Cholera Prevention - CDC
• Vibrio cholerae type 01 - FDA
• Vibrio cholerae type Non-O1 - FDA

002 Typhoid & Paratyphoid fevers

• Typhoid Fever - New York State Department of Health
• Preventing Typhoid Fever: A Guide for Travelers - CDC

003 Salmonella infections

• Salmonellosis - New York State Department of Health
• Salmonella - US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• Salmonella enteritidis Infection - CDC

004 Shigellosis

• Shigellosis - New York State Department of Health
• Shigella - FDA

005 Other food bacterial poisoning

• Botulism - CDC
• Clostridium botulinum - FDA
• Clostridium perfringens - FDA
• Campylobacter jejuni - FDA
• Foodborne Diseases - CDC
• Staphylococcus aureus - FDA
• Yersinia enterocolitica - FDA

006 Amebiasis

• Amebiasis - New York State Department of Health

007 Other protozoal intestinal diseases (Balantidiasis, Giardiasis, Coccidiosis)

• Giardiasis - New York State Department of Health
• Giardiasis - American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
• Giardia lamblia - FDA
• Entamoeba histolytica - FDA
• Cryptosporidiosis - CDC
• Cryptosporidium parvum - FDA
• Cyclospora Information - CDC
• Cyclospora cayentanensis - FDA
• Diphyllobothrium spp. - FDA
• Eustrongylides sp. - FDA
• Acanthamoeba, Naegleria fowleri, other amobae - FDA
• Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichuris trichiura - FDA

008 Intestinal infections due to other organisms

• Rotavirus - FDA
• Norwalk virus family - FDA
• Other Gastroenteritis Viruses - FDA

009 Colitis, enteritis, and gastroenteritis of presumed infectious origin

• Clinical Practice Guidelines
  • Management of Acute Gastroenteritis in Young Children - American Academy of Pediatrics
• E. coli 0157:H7 - New York State Department of Health
• Escherichia coli O157:H7 - CDC
• E. coli Index
• Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli - FDA
• Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli  - FDA
• Escherichia coli O157:H7 - FDA
• Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli
• Food Poisoning and E.coli - The Medical Reporter
• How to Outsmart Dangerous E. coli - FDA Consumer Info
• Preventing Food Born Illness E. coli O157:H7 - National Center for Infectious Diseases, Atlanta
• Hemorrhagic Colitis E. coli O157:H7 - US Food and Drug Administration
• Turning Up the Heat on E. coli 0157:H7 - International Food Information Council

009.2 Infectious diarrhea

• Foodborn Diseases
• Brainerd Diarrhea
• Rotavirus Online
  • DataCenter
• Preventing Foodborne Illness: Listeriosis

010 Tuberculosis

• References
  • Deciphering the biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the complete genome sequence - Nature 393, 537-544, 1998
• Tuberculosis on the Internet
• American Lung Association
• Atlanta Tuberculosis Prevention Coalition
• Current Status of the global tuberculosis epidemic - Nature
• Division of Tuberculosis Elimination - CDC
• Stanford Center For Tuberculosis Research
• Tuberculosis - New York State Department of Health
• Tuberculosis (TB)   - New York Online Access to Health (NOAH)
• TB Clinical Policies and Protocols - NY City Department of Health
• TB/HIV Research Laboratory - Brown University
• Tuberculosis and Airborne Disease Weekly
• Tuberculosis Research - Univ. Capetown
• Tuberculosis Resources
• Tuberculosis Treatment of Tuberculosis Infection - American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
  • Tuberculosis The Meaning of a Positive Test
  • Tuberculosis Treatment of Active Tuberculosis
• TB Manual

020 Plague

• Plague - New York State Department of Health
• Plague - CDC
• Plague
• Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe

021 Tularemia

• Tularemia - New York State Department of Health
• Tularemia - GaelWolf

022 Anthrax

• Anthrax - New York State Department of Health
• Anthrax - CDC

023 Brucellosis

• Brucellosis - New York State Department of Health
• Brucellosis (Undulant Fever, Bang's Disease) - N Y State Dept. of Health
• Brucellosis - Travel Health Online

027 Other Zootic Bacterial Diseases

• Vibrio vulnificus - CDC

030 Leprosy

• Leprosy

• Leprosy - New York State Department of Health

032 Diphtheria

• Diphtheria - New York State Department of Health

033 Whooping cough

• Pertussis - New York State Department of Health

034 Streptococcal sore throat & scarlet fever

• Streptococcal Infections - New York State Department of Health
• Pneumococcal Infections - National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID)
• Stanford U. Teaching Module - New York State Department of Health
• Streptococcus - FDA
• Respiratory Diseases - Includes Streptococcal Infections - CDC

035 Erysipelas

036 Meningococcal infection

• Meningococcal Meningitis - New York State Department of Health

037 Tetanus

• Tetanus - New York State Department of Health

038 Septicemia

039 Actinomycotic infections

042 Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (HIV / AIDS) - Extensive references

045 Acute poliomyelitis

• Poliomyelitis - New York State Department of Health\
• Virtual Museum of the Iron Lung - Richard Hill

046 Slow Virus infection of Centeral Nervous System

• Blood Recall-Withdrawal - Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) - CDC
• Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease - MGH  Neurology Web-Forum
• Creutzfeldt Jacob Disease (CJD)

047 Meningitis due to enterovirus (Coxsackie virus, ECHO virus)

• Viral Meningitis - New York State Department of Health

050 Smallpox

051 Cowpox & paravaccinia

052 Chickenpox

• Chickenpox - New York State Department of Health
• Chickenpox - GlaxoWellcome

Herpes

• American Herpes Foundation (AHF)
  • Patient Information
  • Physician Information
  • AHF Monitor
    • Genital Herpes - pdf
    • Herpes and Pregnancy - pdf
    • Herpes Resources
• Ameican Social Health Association (ASHA)
• Herpes Zone - Bruce Bartholomew
• Herpes Home Page
• Herpes - GlaxoWellcome
• International Herpes Management Forum.

053 Herpes zoster

• Shingles - New York State Department of Health
• Shingles   - GlaxoWellcome

054 Herpes simplex

• Herpes II - New York State Department of Health

055 Measles

• Measles, Mumps, and Rubella
• Measles - New York State Department of Health

056 Rubella

• Rubella

057.0 Erythema infectiosum [fifth disease]

• Fifth Disease

060 Yellow fever

• Yellow Fever  -  New York State Department of Health
• Yellow Fever - CDC

061 Dengue

• Dengue Fever
• Dengue Fever - CDC
• Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever: The Emergence of a Global Health Problem - CDC
• Dengue and Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever - WHO
  • Emergence of a Global Health Problem

062 Mosquito-borne viral encephalitis

063 Tick-borne viral encephalitis

064 Viral encephalitis transmitted by other & unspecified arthropods

• Center for Complex Infectious Diseases (CCID)
  • Stealth Virus Research - Initially Identified in patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
  • Additional Viruses

070 Viral hepatitis - Extensive links

071 Rabies

• Rabies - New York State Department of Health
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAMS)

072 Mumps

• Mumps - New York State Department of Health

073 Ornithosis

074 Specific diseases due to Coxsackie virus

075 Infectious mononucleosis

• Infectious Mononucleosis - New York State Department of Health
• Mononucleosis - American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

076 Trachoma

077 Other diseases of conjunctiva due to viruses & Chlamydiae

078 Other specified diseases due to viruses and Chlamydiae

• Ebola Infections
  • Arboviral Infections - New York State Department of Health
  • Ebola Information - National Center for Infectious Diseases
  • Ebola, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever - CDC
  • Ebola Interview
  • Occurrences of Ebola
  • Ebola Recommended Reading List
  • Ebola Virus Information - Japan
  • Ebola Virus Outbreak - WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Ebola Outbreaks - Updates
  • Outbreak
  • Outbreaks - WHO
• Cat-Scratch Disease
  • Cat-Scratch Disease - American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
• Venereal Warts

080 Louse-borne [epidemic] typhus

082 Tick-borne rickettsioses (Spotted fevers)

• Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
• Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever - CDC

084 Malaria

• Malaria in Mexico
• Malaria Database
• Malaria Information - WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)
• Malaria - New York State Department of Health
• Malaria - CDC
• Malaria - Royal Perth Hospital, Au
• Malaria and Infectious Diseases in Africa - Paludisme et Maladies Infectieuses en Afrique
• Malaria Foundation
• Malaria Genome Mapping Data
• Webliography on Malaria - Environmental Health Project

085 Leishmaniasis

086 Trypanosomiasis

• East African Trypnosomiasis - CDC
• West African Trypanosomiasis - CDC

087 Relapsing fever

088 Lyme disease

• American Lyme Disease Foundation (ALDF)
• Entomology - Iowa State University
• How to Protect Yourself from Lyme Disease  - Government of New Brunswick
• Lyme Alliance
• Lyme Disease - New York State Department of Health
• Lyme Disease Center - State University of New York, Stonybrook
• Lyme Disease  - GlaxoWellcome
• Lyme Disease - American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
• Lyme Disease - MGH  Neurology Web-Forum
• Lyme Disease Information Resource - Donna Herrell
  • Lyme Disease  Chat
  • Clinical Information
• Lyme Disease in the United States and Canada - Art Doherty
• Lyme Disease Network
  •  Newsletter
• Lyme Ring
• Parasitology - University of Dusseldorf
• Tick Research Laboratory  - University of Rhode Island
  •  Lyme Disease
  •  Tick Images
  • Patient Gallery
• Lyme Disease - University of Washington
  • Lyme Disease

090 Congenital syphilis

091 Early syphilis, symptomatic - FDA

• Syphilis - New York State Department of Health
• Syphilis and Yaws

092 Early syphilis, latent

093 Cardiovascular syphilis

094 Neurosyphilis

096 Late syphilis, latent

098 Gonococcal infections

• Gonorrhea - New York State Department of Health
• Gonorrhea - CDC

099 Other venereal diseases

• Campylobacter - CDC
• Campylobacter jejuni - FDA
• Chancroid - New York State Department of Health
• Common Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Granuloma Inguinale - New York State Department of Health
• Healthy Devil On-Line - Duke University
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)
• Lymphogranuloma Venereum - New York State Department of Health
• My sexually transmitted disease
• Guidelines for Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Disease - 1998
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases Information Center - JAMA Women's Health
  • Newsline
  • Education & Support Center
• STD Home Page
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases - Electronic Textbook of Dermatology
• STD Research Group - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  •  Ask the Experts about diagnosis and treatment
• STD Prevention - National Center for HIV, STS & TB Prevention
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases - Alan Guttmacher Institute
• Reiter's Syndrome - University of Washington
  • Reiter's Syndrome

100 Leptospirosis (Weil's Disease)

• Leptospirosis - New York State Department of Health
• Leptospirosis

Fungi

• Introduction to the Fungi - Univ. California, Berkely
• Fun Facts Catalog - Univ. Michigan
• Myko Web - Michael Wood
• What are yeasts? - Stanford University
• WWW Virtual Library, Mycology - Univ. Kansas
• WWW Virtual Library, Yeast  - Stanford University

110 Dermatophytosis

• Ringworm - New York State Department of Health
• National Pediculosis Association

112 Candidiasis

114 Coccidioidomycosis

115 Histoplasmosis

• Histoplasmosis - New York State Department of Health
• Histoplasmosis - CDC

116 Blastomycotic infection

117 Other mycoses

•  Sporotrichosis - CDC

120 Schistosomiasis [bilharziasis]

• Schistosomiasis - CDC

121 Other trematode infections

122 Echinococcosis

124 Trichinosis

• Trichinosis - New York State Department of Health

126 Ancylostomiasis & necatoriasis

127 Other intestinal helminthiases (Ascariasis, Strongyloidiasis, Enterobiasis)

• Intestinal Roundworms - CDC
• Pinworms and Your Child - American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

129 Intestinal parasitism, unspecified

130 Toxoplasmosis

• Toxoplasmosis (Toxo) - New York Online Access to Health (NOAH)

• Toxoplasmosis and Pregnancy - American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

131 Trichomoniasis

132 Pediculosis & phthirus infestation (Lice)

• HeadLice - National Pediculosis Association
• HeadLice - Harvard University
• Pediculosis - New York State Department of Health

133.0 Scabies

• What to Do About Dust Mites in the Home - AAFP
• Scabies - New York State Department of Health

135 Sarcoidosis

• Sarcoidosis - NHLBI

136 Behcets Syndrome

• BehcetÕs Disease - University of Washington
  • BehcetÕs Disease