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Infectious diseases

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Anthrax FAQ: Provides answers to commonly asked questions about the Bacillus anthracis bacterium, commonly known as anthrax. Offers information on the clinical forms of human anthrax, incidence, transmission, and groups most at risk from infection.
Author: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Subjects: infectious diseases
DeweyClass: 616.956
Resource type: documents
Chicken Pox: Provides an insight into varicella, or chicken pox as the virus is commonly known. Describes symptoms, treatment, duration, and prevention of the illness which usually strikes during childhood.
Author: American Academy of Pediatrics
Subjects: infectious diseases
DeweyClass: 616.914
Resource type: documents
Clinical Infectious Diseases: Journal publishing state-of-the-art clinical articles, including those in microbiology, regular AIDS/TB commentaries, and sections covering medical and legal issues, managed care symposia, and time-saving review articles.
Author: University of Chicago Press
Subjects: clinical medicine, infectious diseases
DeweyClass: 616.9
Resource type: journal
Emerging Infectious Diseases: Peer-reviewed journal tracking trends and analysing new and re-emerging infectious diseases from around the world.
Author: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Subjects: infectious diseases
DeweyClass: 616.9
Resource type: journal
Epidemic! The World of Infectious Disease: Exhibition describing how ecology, evolution and environmental change affect the prevalence of infectious diseases. Explains how such diseases originate, spread and infect, with references to historical and contemporary outbreaks.
Author: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: infectious diseases
DeweyClass: 616.9
Resource type: documents, images
Hospital Infection Society: Society which exists to foster the scientific interests of those hospital doctors who are interested in nosocomial or hospital acquired infections. Covers the society's history, annual reports, working parties, meetings, membership, full text of the newsletter, and abstracts for the Journal of Hospital Infection.
Author: Hospital Infection Society
Subjects: hospitals, infectious diseases
DeweyClass: 616.9
Resource type: institution, journal
Infection Detection Protection: An introduction to infections and diseases, describing the mechanisms of microbes, covering bacteria, viruses, and protozoa. Defines the nature of infection, various means of transmission, and recommends methods of prevention.
Author: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: bacteria, infectious diseases
DeweyClass: 616.9
Resource type: documents
Infectious Diseases in Children: Publication covering new drugs and procedures for diagnosing and testing paediatric infectious diseases. Presents succinct reports from medical symposia, as well as interviews with experts in pediatric infectious diseases. Articles from current and back issues available online.
Author: SLACK Incorporated
Subjects: infectious diseases, paediatrics
DeweyClass: 618.9
Resource type: journal
Journal of Infectious Diseases: Publishes research on the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases; on the microbes that cause them; and on disorders of host immune mechanisms. Tables of contents available.
Author: University of Chicago Press
Subjects: immunology, infectious diseases, medical microbiology
DeweyClass: 616.9
Resource type: journal
Lots of Links on Lyme Disease: Provides a list of numerous online resources relating to Lyme Disease, a serious bacterial infection affecting both humans and animals.
Author: Doherty, Art
Subjects: infectious diseases
DeweyClass: 616.92
Resource type: index
Lyme Disease Network: Information on several tick borne diseases, including articles on bite prevention and tick removal, diagnosis, and treatment recommendations.
Author: Lyme Disease Network of New Jersey
Subjects: infectious diseases, mountaineering
DeweyClass: 616.92
Resource type: documents
Malaria Genetics and Genomics: Data and information relevant to Plasmodium falciparum, the apicomplexan parasite responsible for the most serious form of human malaria. These resources include P. falciparum sequence databases, genome maps, linkage markers, and information about genetic studies, plus links to other malaria web sites and genetic data on related apicomplexan parasites, including Toxoplasma gondii.
Author: National Centre for Biotechnology Information
Subjects: infectious diseases, malaria
DeweyClass: 616.9
Resource type: documents
Men's Health: Physical health is only one part of living a better life. Happiness is just as important. Pfizer is committed to improving the overall state of men's health including disease management, lifestyle issues, exercise and discussions on emotional well-being.
Author: Pfizer
Subjects: diseases, infectious diseases
DeweyClass: 616.95
Resource type: reference data
WWW Virtual Library: Epidemiology: Index of links to epidemiology resources. Includes infectious diseases, hospital, molecular, behavioural and environmental epidemiology, diabetes, publications, newsgroups and mailing lists, government agencies, universities and professional societies.
Author: University of California San Francisco Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Subjects: epidemiology, infectious diseases
DeweyClass: 614.4
Resource type: index