Infectious Diseases

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Last Updated: 2004-10-10

• Amebiasis
• An approach to the evaluation of quality indicators of the outcome of care in hospitalized patients, with a focus on nosocomial infection indicators - The Quality Indicator Study Group. Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America.
• Antibiotic Resistance - Offers links to information on this topic [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA)]
• Antimicrobial resistance in long-term-care facilities - Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America.
• Antimicrobial use in long-term-care facilities - Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America.
• Antiviral Agents - CDC Recommendations
• Antiviral Agents for Influenza
• Bloodborne Pathogens - MS PowerPoint slideshow with information about how to protect yourself from transmission of disease and information about what can be transferred and what cannot.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Center for Infectious Disease Research And Policy (CIDRAP) University of Minnesota - Provides a wealth of bioterrorism information and is updated daily
• Clinical Infectious Diseases Journal
• Clostridium Difficile Associated Diarrhea and Colitis - Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America.
• Clostridium Difficile in Long-Term Care Facilities for the Elderly - Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America.
• Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings - Recommendations of the healthcare infection control practices advisory committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America.
• Guidelines for the prevention of antimicrobial resistance in hospitals - Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and Infectious Diseases Society of America Joint Committee on the Prevention of Antimicrobial Resistance.
• Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections - Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America.
• How to select and interpret molecular strain typing methods for epidemiological studies of bacterial infections: a review for healthcare epidemiologists - Molecular Typing Working Group of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
• Infection control recommendations for patients with cystic fibrosis: microbiology, important pathogens, and infection control practices to prevent patient-to-patient transmission - Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Consensus Conference on Infection Control Participants.
• Infection prevention and control in the long-term-care facility - Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America.
• Infectious Diseases Section - Department of Internal Medicine at LSU
• Interim Influenza Vaccination Recommendations/2004-05 Influenza Season - Due to the current flu vaccination situation, CDC, in coordination with its Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP), is issuing interim recommendations for influenza vaccination during the 2004-05 season. (CDC)
• Malaria
• Management of healthcare workers infected with hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, human immunodeficiency virus, or other bloodborne pathogens - AIDS/TB Committee of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
• Medical waste - Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America.
• Monkeypox - Information on the multistate outbreak of monkeypox in persons exposed to pet prairie dogs. Provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC).
• Monkeypox - Interim Guidance for Use of Smallpox Vaccine, Cidofovir & VIG for Prevention and Treatment in the Setting of an Outbreak of Monkeypox Infections. U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC). [PDF  218Kb  6pp.]
• Pathophysiology of Infectious Diseases - University of Minnesota
• Plague Information - Public Health Emergency Preparedness & Response. (CDC) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Post-exposure Prophylaxis: PEP (1) - General Outline for Management of Occupational Blood Exposures
• Post-exposure Prophylaxis: PEP (2) - Occupational Risk for Transmission of HBV, HCV, HIV & PEP Efficacy
• Post-exposure Prophylaxis: PEP (3) - Recommended Post-exposure Prophylaxis for HBV
• Post-exposure Prophylaxis: PEP (4) - HIV Post-exposure Prophylaxis Management
• Post-exposure Prophylaxis: PEP (5) - HIV Post-exposure Prophylaxis Regimens
• Post-exposure Prophylaxis: PEP (6) - Available Resources for help with Occupational Exposures
• Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Lyme Disease
• Preventing Pneumococcal Disease Among Infants and Young Children - Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
• Prevention and Control of Influenza - Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
• Prevention and Control of Meningococcal Disease
• Principles of Virus Architecture - University of Cape Town
• Requirements for infrastructure and essential activities of infection control and epidemiology in hospitals: A consensus panel report - Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America.
• Septic Shock - Current practice guidelines. eMedicine
• Septic Shock - Optimal Management of Septic Shock. Postgraduate Medicine; Vol. 111, No 3, March 2002
• Septic Shock - Systems Approach to Innate Immunity Inflammation Sepsis. A comprehensive and detailed picture of innate immunity-the human body's first line of defense against disease. Funded by a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
• Septic Shock - Treating Septic Shock. Critical Care Medicine Tutorials, University of Pennsylvania
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) - CDC Training & Reference Materials
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) - Diagnosis/Evaluation, CDC
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) - Fact Sheet for Clinicians: Interpreting SARS Test Results from CDC
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) - Infection Control & Exposure Management, CDC
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) - Information and Recommendations for Health Care Providers. New York State Department of Health
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) - Information on the multi-country outbreak of the "mystery pneumonia" referred to as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) - Preliminary Clinical Description, CDC
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) - Quarantine Guidelines, CDC
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) - Treatment, CDC
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) - World Health Organization (WHO) - This web page has been created to provide the public and professionals information about Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The site will be updated daily to ensure that the most current information is available.
• SHEA guideline for preventing nosocomial transmission of multidrug-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus - Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America.
• Smallpox
• Smallpox (CDC) - Home page for all CDC smallpox information. Includes basic information as well as information for health and lab professionals. Part of the CDC Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response site.
• Smallpox (healthfinder)
• Smallpox (MEDLINEplus)
• Smallpox as a Biological Weapon - Medical and Public Health Management - JAMA. 2000
• Smallpox, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) - this information is intended for the healthcare provider (private and public) and includes details about the disease, recommended treatment, and specific issues relating to recognizing Smallpox in emergency departments.
• Smallpox Diagnosis/Evaluation (Signs & Symptoms) - Clinical presentation, patient evaluation, rash illness algorithm.
• Smallpox Information - Guide: Dept. H.H.S.
• Smallpox Pink Book: Chapter 21, Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases - Smallpox disease and vaccine information from standard textbook for vaccine-preventable diseases. [PDF 21pp. 2.64 Mb] Apr 2002
• Smallpox Pre-Vaccination Information Packet - CDC [PDF]
• Smallpox Vaccination and Adverse Events Training Module
• Smallpox Vaccination Clinic Guide - Logistical Considerations and Guidance for State and Local Planning for Emergency, Large-Scale, Voluntary Administration of Smallpox Vaccine in Response to a Smallpox Outbreak
• Smallpox: What Every Clinician Should Know (online training) - Interactive program to train clinicians on the recognition, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of smallpox; CME, CNE, CHES, and CEU credit available
• Smallpox: What Every Clinician Should Know (video) - Dec 13, 2001. Archived video web-cast on University of North Carolina School of Public Health site
• Special Pathogens Branch (SPB), CDC - Special Pathogens Branch (SPB), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - General and technical information about viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs), such as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Lassa fever, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS). These viruses are highly pathogenic and require handling in special laboratory facilities designed to contain them. Work also includes the study of other emerging viral disease agents that do not cause hemorrhagic fever, but require Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) handling, such as Nipah virus and tick-borne encephalitis virus.
• Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B
• The Wonders of Microbes
• Traveler's Diarrhea
• Tuberculosis
• University of Liverpool Centre for Comparative Infectious Diseases (CCID)
• Viral and Rickettsial Diseases - CDC
• Viral Disease
• Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
• West Nile Virus - CDC West Nile virus web site contains links to guidelines for clinicians on diagnosis, reporting, testing and treatment, including a map of states reporting animal cases.
• West Nile Virus - National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) provides data, information, and maps related to outbreaks of the West Nile virus and mosquito-borne encephalitis in the United States.
• West Nile Virus Map - U.S. Geological Survey weekly maps and tables of data collected. These maps reflect information for the 2003 West Nile Virus reporting season that has been submitted and verified to CDC.
• West Nile Virus Project - USGS National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) provides diagnostic support and research results to Federal, State and local wildlife agencies, as well as to public health departments that are utilizing dead wild birds as sentinels for detecting the West Nile virus (WNV). Information from the National West Nile Virus Surveillance System is being used to compile and produce graphical displays and animations showing the pattern and spread of the virus. An additional analysis is being performed to detect clusters of infections and possibly, the geographic origin of the outbreak.