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unusual facts about Infectious Diseases



Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy

Every few weeks, students are rotated and exposed to different parts of clinical medicine such as Internal Medicine, General Surgery, Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology, Neurology, Orthopedics, Radiology, Public Health and so on.

PKIDs

PKIDs’ mission is to educate the public about infectious diseases, the methods of prevention and transmission, and the latest advances in medicine; to eliminate the social stigma borne by the infected; and to assist the families of children living with HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, or other chronic, viral infectious diseases with emotional, financial, and informational support.


see also

AAP Red Book

The AAP Red Book, or Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases of the American Academy of Pediatrics, is a hardcover, softcover, and electronic reference to the "manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of some 200 childhood infectious diseases".

Alex Coutinho

Alex Coutinho (born 19th June 1959) is a Ugandan physician, public health advocate, academic, and Executive Director of the Infectious Diseases Institute of Makerere University.

Alexandre Besredka

During his career at the Pasteur Institute, he made contributions in his work involving antiviral therapy, as well as in the development of vaccines against various infectious diseases.

Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine

The Anton Breinl Centre and the Centre for Biosecurity and Tropical Infectious Diseases enhance the organisational capacity of these research areas.

JCU has a long history in tropical health research, with an established focus on infectious diseases and the health of tropical populations through the Anton Breinl Centre.

Bubble Boy

Severe combined immunodeficiency, sometimes called bubble boy disease, a genetic disorder which results in an extreme vulnerability to infectious diseases

Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy

It was founded in 2001 by Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH, in order to "prevent illness and death from infectious diseases through epidemiological research and rapid translation of scientific information into real-world practical applications and solutions".

DSI: Disease Scene Investigation

An obvious pun on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, it stars Yvette Lu as a high tech nurse, guiding two high school students through their investigations into infectious diseases threatening their high school.

Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh

Iveagh also donated £250,000 to the Lister Institute in 1898, the first medical research charity in the United Kingdom (to be modelled on the Pasteur Institute, studying infectious diseases).

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Eurosurveillance, a European peer-reviewed journal devoted to the epidemiology, surveillance, prevention and control of infectious diseases, has been published by ECDC since March 2007.

European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases

ESPID offers several grants and fellowships to facilitate information exchange, education, and research in the field of paediatric infectious diseases.

Gladys Lounsbury Hobby

In 1959, Hobby left Pfizer to specialized in chronic infectious diseases as chief of research at the Veterans Administration Hospital in East Orange, New Jersey.

Green terror

Although bona fide infectious diseases such as Ichthyophthirius multifiliis (Ick) do not spontaneously appear due to overcrowding itself, a disease-state results from elevated nitrates.

Healthcare in Malaysia

Since the Nipah virus outbreak in 1999, the Malaysian Health Ministry have put in place processes to be better prepared to protect the Malaysian population from the threat of infectious diseases.

HealthMap

In operation since September 2006, and created by John Brownstein, PhD and Clark Freifeld, MS, HealthMap acquires data from a variety of freely available electronic media sources (e.g. ProMED-mail, Eurosurveillance, Wildlife Disease Information Node) to obtain a comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases.

Ixodes scapularis

The Centers for Disease Control's emerging infectious diseases department did a study in rural New Jersey of 100 ticks, and found 55% of the ticks were infected with at least one of the pathogens.

Jay P. Sanford

Sanford served as councillor, secretary and then president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (1966 to 1979.) He also served as chairman of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education, chairman of the American Board of Internal Medicine and chairman of the ABIM's Subspecialty Committee on Infectious Diseases.

Kirakira

There is the capacity to manage infectious diseases such as TB and Malaria, which are common in KiraKira, with access to the appropriate medications to treat these infectious illnesses.

Lawrence Eron

He subsequently graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Medical School in 1971 and then performed his internship, residency, and fellowship in infectious diseases at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston from 1971 to 1976.

Louis B. Wilson

In 1918, Wilson went overseas as the assistant director of the AEF division of laboratories and infectious diseases.

Mario Raviglione

Raviglione has authored or co-authored published hundreds of articles on the topics of infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS and TB, including in the last five editions of the Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine.

Perry Gomez

He then attended medical school at Wayne State University where he specialized in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.

Pierre M'Pelé

He completed his training by being a clinic attaché at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, at the Departement of Public Health, Tropical Medecine and Infectious Diseases under Professor Marc Gentilini.

Richard Root

He was a former president of the American Federation of Clinical Research, editor in chief of a textbook, Clinical Infectious Diseases, and, from 1986 to 1991, director of the National Institutes of Health's AIDS Advisory Committee.

Robert Killick-Kendrick

Robert Killick-Kendrick (20 July 1929 – 22 October 2011) was a British parasitologist with interests in the vectors of infectious diseases, in particular phlebotomine sandflies

Selorm Kuadey

Kuadey graduated with a 1st class honours degree in human biology and infectious diseases at the University of Salford.

South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases

The South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID) was founded by the University of Texas at San Antonio at the former Brooks Air Force Base site in San Antonio, TX.

Steven Krilis

Steven Krilis (born Athens, Greece 26 November 1947) is Professor of Immunology Allergies and Infectious diseases at the University of New South Wales and St George Hospital in Sydney, Australia.

Steven Morse

Stephen S. Morse, (born ~1940s), American scientist on emerging infectious diseases