GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS

Gram-negative Bacteria Flow Chart [D Fix] - S Illinois Univ of Carbondale (US)
Gram-Negative Bacteria - MicroBioNet (AU)
The Porphyromonas gingivalis Genome Project - Forsyth Dental C.


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• Salmonella Infections
  • About Salmonella - McKinley Health Center, Illinois (US)
  • Salmonella Profile - ScienceNet (AU)
  • About Salmonella [RA Giannella] - Medical Microbiology/Ed. S Baron
  • Egg-associated Salmonella enteritidis infection - NCIDOD/CDC (US)
  • Reptile-Associated Salmonellosis Information Page - from MMWR (US)
  • Salmonella in Songbirds - Newfoundland/Labrador Agriculture (CA)
  • Multi-Drug Resistant Salmonella Typhimurium, Jan '97 - WHO
  • Emergence of a Highly Virulent Strain of Salmonella Typhimurium (DT104) - Univ of Wisconsin, Jan '97
  • Outbreak of Salmonella Serotype Anatum Infection Associated With Unpateurized Orange Juice [Krause et al.] - SMJ, Dec 2001
  • Another Outbreak of AlfaAlfa Sprout-Associated Salmonellosis (S. Mbandaka) - CDC, 1999
  • Raw-milk products may contain (antibiotic-resistant) Salmonella - via PersonalMD.com '99
  • Parkinsonism caused by (Salmonella minnesota) lipopolysaccharides [I Niehaus; case report] - (DE), and the structure of the lipid A component [image] - Molecular Probes, Inc.
  • Salmonella enteritidis [image; D Kunkel] - Hawaii
  • Typhoid Fever
    • About Typhoid Fever [Fact Sheet] - New York State Dept. of Health (US)
    • Typhoid Fever Information - Adam, via MedlinePlus
    • Typhoid Fever - CDC (US)
    • Vaccination Info from International Travelers Clinic - Med. Coll. of Wisconsin (US)
    • About Typhoid & Paratyphoid Fevers - Victoria Gvmt. (AU)
• Escherichia coli Infections
  • What The Heck is an E. coli [JC Brown] - Kansas U. (US)
  • E. coli Infections - New York State Dept. of Health (US)
  • Typical and Atypical Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli [Trabulsi et al.] - CDC/EID May 2002
  • About Vero Cytotoxin-producing E-Coli O157 - Public Health Lab. Service (UK)
  • How to Outsmart Dangerous E. coli Strain [Jan/Feb '94] - FDA Consumer Info (US)
  • E. coli O157:H7, and about Novel Vehicles of Infection and Emerging Phenotypic Variants [P Feng, '96] - CDC/NCIDOD (US)
  • About E. coli O157:H7 - US Food & Drug Admin. (US)
  • O-157 infection in a fury - Osaka U. Med School (JP)
  • The E. coli Index and E. coli as Pathogens [Bettelheim & Thomas] - Univ of Birmingham (UK)
• Klebsiella Infections
  • Klebsiella: One potentially nasty bacteria [A Brochert] - PersonalMD
  • Synopsis of Klebsiella pneumoniae - Univ of Texas/Houston (US)
  • About Klebsiella pneumoniae (Friedlander's pneumonia) - Univ of Florida (US)
• Yaws
  • About Yaws - MedicineNet
• Brucellosis
  • Brucellosis (Undulant Fever, Bang's Disease) - N Y State Dept. of Health (US)
  • Brucellosis: An Overview - CDC/NCIDOD (US)
• Campylobacter Infections
  • Foodborne Campylobacteriosis - IFST (UK)
  • About Campylobacter enteritis - Adam, via MedlinePlus
  • Campylobacter Infections (Campylobacteriosis) - CDC (US)
  • Campylobacter Infections [Ang and Nachman] - eMedicine
  • Campylobacter: Low-Profile Bug Is Food Poisoning Leader - FDA (US)
  • About Campylobacter: Results from a national and state specific surveillance and case-control studies [PP slide series] - FDA/CDC (US)
• Fusobacterium Infections
  • Lemierre's Syndrome [Singhal et al] - SMJ, Sep 2001
  • A case of Lemierre's Syndrome [Singhal and Kerstein] - SMJ, Sep 2001
  • A 23-y-o woman with sepsis ... - Case Rounds/Johns Hopkins (US)
• Burkholderia Infections
  • Melioidosis
    • About Melioidosis (Whitmore's Disease) - MedicineNet
    • Melioidosis: State of the Art ... , special issue of Acta Tropica, Feb 2000
    • Melioidosis [image, x-ray] - Mount Allison Univ. (CA)
    • About Burkholderia pseudomallei and Melioidosis - MBCC Protease Research Group (MY)
• Pseudomonas Infections
  • About Pseudomonas aeruginosa [K Todar] - Univ of Wisconsin-Madison (US)
  • Pseudomonas burn infections [GJ Tritz]
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Topics in Infect Dis Newsletter, Aug 2001 (AU)
  • Lessons in Pseudomonas Infections - Nat'l Institute for Virology, Witwatersrand (ZA)
• Mycoplasma Infections
  • About Mycoplasma Infections [Fact Sheet] - New York State Dept. of Health (US)
  • Brief fact sheet about Mycoplasma Infection - EDCP
  • About the Mycoplasmas [S Razin; ed. S Baron] - Medical Microbiology
  • Mycoplasmas: Sophisticated, Reemerging, and Burdened by Their Notoriety [Baseman and Tully]
  • Re: Mycoplasma Infections - Maternal-Child Health Forum
  • Mycoplasma and Walking (a) pneumonia - Broward County, FL (US)
  • About Mycoplasma pneumoniae - the mystery bug [compiled by KJ Howard]
  • Brief information about Ureaplasma Urealyticum (genital) infection - Beach C. for Infertility, Endocrinology and IVF (US), and about the Ureaplasma urealyticum Genome - Univ of Alabama, Birmingham (US)
  • A list of Ureaplasma references - Los Alamos Nat'l Lab. (US)
  • Ureaplasma urealyticum resources [links] - AllBio.Org
  • Complete Genome of Mycoplasma genitalium - NCBI/NLM
• Legionellosis
  • A fact sheet about Legionellosis (Legionnaires Disease) - New York State Dept. of Health (US)
  • About Legionnaires Disease - CDC/NCIDOD (US)
  • Legionellaceae - ScienceNet (AU)
  • EWGLI - European Working Group for Legionella Infections
  • Legionnaires' Disease - OSHA Technical Manual (US)
  • On Legionnaires' Disease and Pneumonia [Akbas and Yu] - PostGradMed, May 2001
  • Guidelines for the Control of Legionnaires' Disease - Public Health Div., Victoria (AU)
  • Legionnaire's Disease - Penn State Univ. (US)
• Plague
  • Plague - Virginia Tech/Entomology Dept. (US)
  • Plague Information Page - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
  • Plague [NR Chamberlain] - Kirksville College, Osteopathic Med.
  • Yersina pestis, image - Univ of New Mexico
• Leptospirosis (Weil's Disease)
  • About Leptospirosis - New York State Dept. of Health (US)
  • Leptospirosis - NCIDOD/CDC (US)
  • Leptospira [RC Johnson] - Medical Microbiology/Ed. S Baron
  • Leptospira Laboratory [B Adler] at Monash U. (AU)
• Rat-Bite Fever (Haverhill Fever)
  • About Rat-bite Fever - Adam, via MedlinePlus
  • Rat-bite Fever [GJ Tritz]
  • Streptobacillus moniliformis infection - Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases/Univ of Florida (US)
• Tick-Borne Diseases
  • A New Illness Transmitted by Ticks [Wall Street J, Aug '95] via Virginia Tech/Entomology Dept. (US)
  • Bacterial diseases caused by Spirochetes - Merck Manual
  • Lyme Disease and Tickborne Disease - New Jersey State/Health (US)
  • Tick-borne Illnesses [N MacLeod] - (US)
  • Tick images (family Ioxdidae) - Nebraska EntWeb
  • Pictures of the American Dog Tick and the Lone Star Tick - U of Kentucky
  • Relapsing Fever
    • Relapsing Fever [JA Edlow] - e-medicine
  • Lyme Disease
    • Lyme Disease information from CDC (US)
    • The ACP Initiative on Lyme Disease - (US)
    • Lyme Disease: Which tests to perform? - IGenex, Inc. (US)
    • On the Diagnosis of Lyme Disease, and the Relability of Blood and Urine Tests for Lyme Disease - NIAID/NIH
    • Lyme Disease - a Monograph and Guide for Washington Physicians - HealthLinks
    • EU Concerted Action on Lyme Borreliosis including some images (Erythema migrans, Acrodermatitis Atrophicans, Borrelial Lymphocytoma) - (UK)
    • LDF - Lyme Disease Foundation - (US)
    • Lyme Disease Network Home Page - NJ Inc. (US)
    • Basic information about Lyme Disease [for physicians] - ILADS (US)
    • Large, patchy skin eruptions after a hiking trip [case report; Ledbetter et al.] - PostgradMed, May 2000
    • Is Lyme Disease Underdiagnosed, Overdiagnosed and/or Underreported? [A Doherty]
    • A 2-year-old boy with a rash and fever [H Lessin] - Mid-Hudson Valley (US)
    • Lyme Disease Images - LymeNet
    • Pictures (links) of Lyme Disease [A Doherty]
    • Deer Tick, picture magnified x 500 - Museum of Science
    • Borrelia Burgdorferi Molecular Genetics Server - (FR)
  • Ehrlichiosis
    • Human Ehrlichiosis & Human Granulocytic Erlichiosis - GaelWolf (US)
    • Human Granulocytic Erlichiosis [fact sheet; pdf format] - NY State Dept of Health (US)
    • Human Erlichiosis - Southern Medical Association (US)
    • Ehrlichiosis - Rhode Island (US)
    • The Emergence of Another Tickborne Infection ...: Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis ( HGE ) - Emerging Infections Pgm, Yale (US)
    • Emergence of Ehrlichioses as Human Health Problems [Walker & Dumler] - EID '96/CDC
    • Laboratory Tests for Ehrlichiosis and about PCR tests - IGenex, Inc. (US)
  • Tularemia
    • Tularemia (Rabbit Fever) [J Edlow] - e-Medicine
    • Tularemia - Adam, via MedlinePlus
    • The Four Types of Tularemia - Merck Manual/Home Ed.
    • Brief Note about the Cottontail Rabbit [Snyder & Ellis]
    • About Tularemia as a Biological Weapon - JAMA, Jun 2001
• Chlamydia Infections
  • Chlamydiae as Pathogens: New Species and New Issues [Peeling & Brunham] - EID/CDC, Oct-Dec '96
  • On Chlamydia pneumoniae and Cardiovascular Disease [Campbell et al.] - CDC
  • See also under Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Bacterial
• Ornithosis
  • Psittacosis (Ornithosis, Parrot Fever) - N.Y. City/Dept of Health
  • On Controlling Chlamydia psittaci Infection Among Humans (Psittacosis) and Pet Birds (Avian Chlamydiosis) - CDC/MMWR Jul '00
  • Psittacosis in Humans - Virginia Dept of Agriculture
• Bartonella Infections
  • MeSH entry of Bartonella infections (Carrion's Disease) - NLM (US)
  • Bartonella henselae and Other Bartonella responsible for human diseases [summary of articles; RH Piement, '98-'99] - Annales de Biologie Clinique
  • HIV and Bartonella: Bacillary Angiomatosis and Peliosis - The AIDS Knowledge Base
  • This 19-year-old male ... [TA Frye] - U of Alabama
  • Bartonella quintana Infection ('Trench Fever') among Homeless Persons - CDC, Apr-Jun '96
  • Cat-scratch Disease
    • About Cat Scratch Disease - Family Doctor
    • Cat Scratch Disease - CFA Health Committee
    • Unraveling Mysteries Associated with Cat-Scratch Disease, Bacilliary Angiomatosis, and Related Syndromes, EID Jan '95 - CDC (US)
    • Cat Scratch Fever [TK Harper]
    • Cat Scratch Disease - Pediatric Bulletin
    • Cat-Scratch Diseases in Primary Care [Busen and Scarborough] - Internet J of Advanced Nursing, Jul '97
    • About Cat Scratch Disease [A. Gandy] - PedBase (CA)
• Q Fever
  • About Q Fever [K Taylor] - HealthNet, Victoria (AU)
  • On Q Fever in Australia [J Ferguson] - HAPS (AU)
  • About a Q Fever Outbreak in Germany 1996 - MMWR
• Rickettsia Infections
  • Rickettsiaceae - ScienceNet (AU)
  • Rickettsial Infections - Merck Manual/Home Edition
  • Rickettsiae [DH Walker] - Medical Microbiology/Ed. S Baron
  • Rickettsial Agents in Laboratory Work - MSU (US)
  • Pulmonary Manifestations of Rickettsial Illnesses [Dorsey and Jacobs] - PCCU/CHEST (US)

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  • Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
    • About Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
    • Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever - Southern Medical Association (US)
    • A Case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever - MDChoice
  • Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne
    • Epidemic Louse-Borne Typhus Fever, May '97 - WHO
    • On the Four Main Types of Typhus - via aHealthyMe (US)
    • Typhus - Virginia Tech/Entomology (US)
    • A brief definition of Brill-Zinsser disease - e-Doc (ZA)
  • Scrub Typhus
    • About Control of Chiggers - IFAS (US)
    • About Chiggers - Ohio State Univ. Ext. (US)
• Vibrio Infections
  • Vibrionaceae - ScienceNet (AU)
  • Some brief Facts about Vibrio vulnificus [JD Oliver]
  • About Vibrio vulnificus infections - Bad Bug Book, FDA (US)
  • About Vibrio vulnificus - Florida (US)
  • Cholera
    • About Cholera, Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139, and Other Pathogenic Vibrios [RA Finkelstein] - Medical Microbiology/Ed. S Baron
    • A Lecture on Cholera [K Todar] - U of Wisconsin (US)
    • Vaccination Information - McKinley Health Center, Illinois (US)
    • On Cholera and Epidemic Dysentery - WHO (CH)
    • Cholera: Basic Facts for Travellers and about Management of Cholera Patient - WHO (CH)
    • About Cholera and G Proteins [Gilman and Rodbell;Nobel Prize in Medicine 1994]
    • Vibrio Cholera [image; D Kunkel] - Hawaii
    • DNA sequence of both chromosomes of the cholera pathogen Vibrio Cholera [heidelberg et al.] - Nature, Aug '00

Gram-positive Bacteria Flow Chart [D Fix] - S Illinois Univ of Carbondale (US)
Gram-Positive Bacteria - MicroBioNet (AU)
On Differentiating between Staphylococcus and Streptococcus by means of the Catalase test, and a note
An illustration of the Catalase test [R Chamberlain; QuickTime movie]


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• Staphylococcal Infections
  • Staph infections, an overview - Apni Sehat
    
  • Staphylococcus [T Foster] - Medical Microbiology/Ed. S Baron
  • About Carbunculosis - Adam, via MedlinePlus
  • On Staphylococcal infections [4 articles] - PostGradMed, Oct 2001
  • The Grapes of Staph(ylococci) [G Kaiser]
  • Compilation of Characteristics of Staphylococci - Channing Lab./Harvard (US)
  • About Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) - CDC (US)
  • On Epidemic methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (EMRSA) in hospitals in England and Wales, 1995
  • Methicillin Resistance in Staphylococci - Topics in Infect Dis Newsletter, Jan 2001
  • Staphylococci aureus [image; D Kunkel] - Hawaii
  • Breif note about the Coagulase Test - Univ of Maryland (US)
  • About the Mannitol Salt Agar test - Louisiana State Univ. (US)
• Streptococcal Infections
  • Streptococcus [M Jevitz Patterson] - Medical Microbiology/Ed. S Baron
  • Streptococcus Pyogenes - U of Wisconsin (US)
  • Strep Throat - YourHealth
  • Strep Throat - AMA-ASSN (US)
  • About Invasive Group A Streptococcal Disease - New York State Dept. of Health (US)
  • Group A Streptococcal Infections - NIAID (US)
  • On Streptococcal Toxic-Shock Syndrome [L. Stevens] - Emerg Infect Dis, Jul-Sep '95 (US)
  • Group B Streptococcal Infections - CDC/NCIDOD (US)
  • The Group B Strep Association
  • Group B Strep Support - Microscience Ltd. (UK)
  • On Complications of Group B Streptococcus Infections
  • Streptococcal Resources - Rockefeller Univ.
  • Pneumococcal Infections
    • About Pneumococcal Infections - NFID (US)
    • First Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine [Prevnar] Approved for Infants and Toddlers - FDA News, Feb 2000
    • About Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine, and Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine - CDC (US)
  • Fasciitis, Necrotizing
    • Streptococcus A - Necrotizing Fascitis [A. Grant] - via EmergencyNet (US)
    • US Nat'l Necrotizing Fasciitis Foundation
    • A 72 year old white woman .. (registration /no charge/ required on 1st visit) - EMBBS (US)
  • Scarlet Fever
    • Scarlet Fever - KidsHealth (US)
    • An illustration of Scarlet Fever rash symptoms, 1-3 days, comparing Measles and Scarlet Fever rash symptoms, 1-3 days [S Carman], and an image (back) of a Scarlet Fever patient - ADAM.com
    • Streptococcus pyogenes [M Fazio], and some micro images - Lab. of Bacterial Pathogenesis & Immunology, Rockefeller University (US)
    • On Scarlet Fever and Pregnancy [H Oster] - iVillagehealth.com
  • Rheumatic Fever
    • What is Rheumatic Heart Disease? - Loyola U., Chicago (US)
    • Jones Criteria for the Diagnosis of Rheumatic Fever - (SG)
    • About Rheumatic Heart Disease/Rheumatic Fever, and Treatment of Acute Streptococcal Pharyngitis and Prevention of Rheumatic Fever [Scientific Stmt '95]- Am. Heart Assoc.
    • Rheumatic Fever - U. of Illinois (US)
    • Aschoff nodules (Rheumatic Fever) [EC Klatt]
• Anthrax
  • About Anthrax - CDC/NCIDOD (US)
  • About Anthrax [M Vadivale]
  • About Bacillus anthracis [PCB Turnbull] - Medical Microbiology/Ed. S Baron
  • Anthrax in an Infant [case report, Karthikeyan et al.] - Indian Pediatrics, 2001; 38
  • Use of anthrax vaccine in the United States - MMWR, Dec 2000
  • Consumer Alert! - Offers to Treat Biological Threats: What You Need to Know - FTC (US)
  • Anthrax for the Pulmonary Physician - ChestNet (US)
  • Anthrax as a Weapon of Terrorism ... - DefenceJournal, Dec '98
• Diphtheria
  • Facts about Diphtheria For Adults - NFID (US)
  • Diphtheria [K Todar, '97] - Univ. of Wisconsin (US)
  • Diphtheria [.pdf format] - Pink Book, CDC (US)
  • About Diphtheria - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
  • Diphtheria Pathogenesis - Berkeley
  • Some microbiological notes on Corynebacterium diphtheriae [DF Fix]
• Nocardia Infections
  • About Nocardiosis - Topics in Infect Dis Newsletter, Jun 2001 (AU)
• Listeria Infections
  • Listeria -The Facts - Dept Human Services, Victoria (AU)
  • About Listeria monocytogenes and Listeriosis - Wellness Web
  • Listeriosis information - CDC
  • Listeria monocytogenes - FSIS (US)
  • The Great Kettering Listeria Outbreak of 1998 [JM Bernstein]
• Clostridium Infections
  • Clostridial infections - Kids Health (US)
  • Pseudomembranous colitis - Adam, via MedlinePlus
  • About Pseudomembranous Enterocolitis - Vanderbilt Med C. (US)
  • About Pseudomembranous Colitis [M Nadel] - PathWeb
  • Clostridium difficile fact sheet - MedValet/COHIS
  • Clostridium information - Aeru's Micro World
  • Clostridium perfringens - Handbook from FDA (US)
  • Clostridium perfringens resources [links; BE Langlois] - Univ of Kentucky/Lexington
  • Tetanus
    • Tetanus (Lockjaw) [Fact Sheet] - New York State Dept. of Health (US)
    • Tetanus [.pdf format] - Pink Book, CDC (US)
    • Adults Need Tetanus Shots, Too - FDA (US)
    • Neonatal Tetanus - PAHO
    • A note on Neonatal Tetanus and cosmetic 'Indian Healing Clay' - FDA, Summer '98 (US)
    • Tetanus: A Case Study [PJ Raya] - ABFP Journal, May/Jun 2001
    • Cases of Risus Sardonicus - WHO, about Opisthotonos - MedlinePlus/Adam, and a picture - CDC
  • Gas Gangrene
    • About Gas Gangrene - Adam via MEDLINEPlus
    • Gas Gangrene [N Ewen Wang] - e-Medicine
    • Hyperbaric Oxygen in the treatment of Clostridial Myonecrosis - Chico Hyperbaric C.
  • Botulism
    • Botulism: cause, diagnosis, treatment - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
    • Infant Botulism - Pediatric Bulletin
    • Botulism - Washington U./St. Louis
    • Clostridium botulinum - Handbook from FDA (US)
    • About Botulinus [TK Harper]
    • Botulism Toxin Research & Clinical Use WWW Site [First et al.] - Boston University/Medical Center (US)
    • Botulinum Toxin: A Poison That Can Heal [L Vangelova] - FDA (US)
• Tuberculosis
  • About Tuberculosis Management, Control & Prevention - Health Net Australia
  • What is Tuberculosis? - Charles P Felton Nat'l TC Center (US)
  • Tuberculosis links - NOAH (US).
  • Childhood Tuberculosis: current concepts in diagnosis - Canadian Paediatric Society
  • Tuberculosis Resources - Univ of Columbia (US)
  • Canadian Tuberculosis Standards, 5th ed., 2000
  • Division of Tuberculosis Elimination - CDC (US)
  • EuroTB, a WHO collaborating centre
  • Tuberculosis Information - School of Med./Infectious Diseases, JHU (US)
  • Tuberculosis [PM Polgreen] - Family Practice Handbook, Virtual Hosp. (US)
  • Ocular Tuberculosis [M Samson] - MEEI/Harvard
  • About Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis [PDO Davies; '99]
  • The New White Plague (Mycobacterium tuberculosis, MDR-TB) [Walton and Farmer] - msJAMA Dec '00
  • Primary Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis - Ivanovo Oblast, Russia, 1999 - MMWR/CDC (US)
  • Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Tuberculosis [Horsburgh, Jr et al.] - IDSA (US)
  • A 50-y-o man with soft tissue masses .... - Case Rounds/Johns Hopkins (US)
  • Pathology of Tuberculosis [EC Klatt]
  • Tuberculosis Research Centre - Chennai (IN)
  • New weapon in TB fight? [M Haw] - Nature, Jun '00
  • About Tuberculosis Skin Test - American Lung Association, and about the Meaning of a Positive Tuberculosis Test - AAFP (US)
  • The Mycobacterium tuberculosis - complete genome sequence - Sanger Centre (UK)
• Leprosy (Hansen's Disease)
  • What is Leprosy? - LEPRA
  • Leprosy Information - ILEP
  • Leprosy - Handbook of Dermatology & Venerology (HK)
  • About Hansen's Disease [PI Wathen] - SMJ, Jul '96 (US)
  • Global Leprosy Situation 1998 and Action Programme for the Elimination of Leprosy - WHO (CH)
  • National Hansen's Disease Programs - BPHC (US)
  • Brief Clinical Information about Leprosy - Washington Univ. /St Louis (US)
  • Lepromatous Uveitis Diagnosed by Iris Biopsy [S Foster] - MEEI/Harvard (US)
  • About Leprosy - Novartis Foundation
  • Leprosy [picture, face], and Leprosy [picture, arm] - Dept. of Dermatology, UIowa (US)
  • An Historical Note from Norway - Univ. of Bergen (NO)

Common Bacterial Infections of the Skin - Matrix Derm. Resources/UC-Davis (US)



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• Impetigo
  • About Impetigo - KidsHealth
  • Impetigo [R Park] - eMedicine
  • Impetigo - HealthLink/U of Wisconsin
  • A Child with Impetigo - Virtual Hosp/Iowa (US)
  • A Case of Impetigo - U of Iowa/Derm (US)
• Actinomycosis
  • About Actinomycosis - Adam, via MedlinePlus
  • Actinomycosis - Univ of Lund/Odontology (SE)
  • Actinomycosis of the Head and Neck [EJ Hillman] - Baylor Coll. (US)
  • Actinomycosis [images] - Univ. of Erlangen (DE)
• Mycobacterium Infections
  • The Mycobacteria [LM Steyn] - (ZA)
  • About Cutaneous Tuberculosis and Atypical Mycobacterial Infection [LY Chong] - (HK)
  • Lupus vulgaris [images] - Univ. of Erlangen (DE)
  • About Buruli Ulcer - WHO (CH)
  • Brief details about Antimycobacterials for treating Buruli Ulcer [Philips et al.] - Cochrane Skin Group Protocol (UK)
  • About the Mycobacterium avium complex - CDC (US)

MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL

• Answers to some questions about Meningitis - Georgia Div of Public Health (US)
• The Meningitis Trust - (UK), including a What Is Meningitis? page, and the Story of Little Thomas
• Meningococcal Fact Sheet - Public Health Lab. Service (UK)
• The Meningitis Research Foundation of Canada
• Meningitis and Sepsis [VN Reddy] - (US)
• Therapy of suspected bacterial meningitis in Canadian children, six weeks and older - Canadian Paediatric Society
• Meningococcal Meningitis - McKinley Health Center, Illinois (US)
• Management and Prevention of Meningococcal Disease [CME material; Mehta and Levin] - Hosp Practice, Aug '00
• Meningitis: fresh hopes for its eradication (C conjugate vaccine) [G Klaus] - Mill Hill Essays '99
• Meningeal Infections: General Concepts [G Baumbach] - Virtual Hospital, Iowa (US)
• About Neisseria meningitidis - Neisseria.org
• A Case of Meningococcemia in a 20 yr old male - Pittsburgh/Pathol (US)
• Meningococcal Meningitis Fact Sheet - EMC-WHO (CH)
• Meningitis C Vaccination - Medinfo (UK)
• About Syphilitic Meningitis from the Meningitis Foundation of America
• About the Kernig's Sign and Brudzinski's Sign [Saberi and Syed]
• Meningitis Research Foundation - (US)
• Haemophilus influenzae Rd Genome - TIGR Institute of Genome Research
• Notes on Brazilian Purpuric Fever - CDC/MMWR Dec '90 (US)
• A Preliminary Report on Epidemic Fatal Purpuric Fever ('Purpura fulminans') Among Children in Brazil - Apr 26, 1985

• Cross Infection
  • The CDC Hospital Infections Program - NCIDOD/CDC (US)
  • A Quick Guide to Infection Control Information - Hospital Epidemiology, Utah (US)
  • Nosocomial Infection Surveillance - SUNY/Buffalo (US)
  • Confronting the Problem of Increasing Antibiotic Resistance [WC Hellinger] - SMJ Sep '00
  • Documents related to Antimicrobial resistance - European Comission
  • On Tetracycline resistance - Belgian Biosafety Server (BE)
  • The Challenge of Antibiotic Resistance [SB Levy] - Scientific Am., Mar '98
  • About Vancomycin [N Anaizi] - The Drug Monitor
  • About Aminoglycosides [Gonzalez and Spencer] - AAFP '98 (US)
  • About Oxazolidinones, and Zyvox (tm) - Pharmacia, Inc./Corp.
  • Antibiotic resistance genes identified by Infectio Diagnostic (CA)
  • New Antibacterial Agents - Johns Hopkins, Feb '99
  • About Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) - CDC (US)
  • On Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci [Flores et al] - Moffitt Cancer C. & Research Inst.
  • On Multiple-Drug Resistant Enterococci ... [Huycke et al.] - CDC/EID '98 (US)
  • Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE) and the Clinical Laboratory - CDC
  • Preventing the Spread of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci (VRE) in Canada - Guidelines from CHICA, '97 (CA)
  • Some Testing Protocols from the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System
  • Nomenclature of glycoproteins, glycopeptides and peptidoglycans - JCBN
  • Sterilization & Disinfection - CDC/DHQP (US)
  • Handwashing Information - Compliance Control (US)
  • APIC: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. - (US)
  • Journal of Hospital Infection Home Page - WB Saunders Comp. Ltd. (UK)
• Sepsis
  • Sepsis - Adam, via MedlinePlus
  • About Septic Shock - Merck Manual
  • NISE - National Initiative in Sepsis Education - (US)
  • Brief notes on Toxic Shock Syndrome and Tampons - McKinley Health Center
  • Toxic-Shock Syndrome: Reducing the Risk - FDA (US)
  • Toxic Shock Syndrome: Broadening the Differential Diagnosis [CM Herzer] - ABFP Journal, Mar/Apr 2001
  • Toxic Shock Syndrome - KidsHealth (US)
  • Toxic Shock Syndrome information service - (UK)
  • A Collection of articles on Management Strategies in Sepsis - via Felice Apicella's Web Site (IT)
  • Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) and Bacterial Sepsis With Shock [NR Chamberlain]
  • Sepsis - Antimicrobial Therapy - UPenn, Med C.
  • About Septic Shock [JS Stapczynski] - eMedicine
  • Effects of Extracorporeal Detoxification Methods on Mortality in Sepsis [Zhidkov and Klechikoff] - ICU (ZA)
  • Bacteremia
    • Bacteremia, definition of - KUMC (US)
    • About Bacteremia - Merck Manual

Mycology [A DaSilva] - Univ of South Carolina (US)
On Pathogenic Fungi [S Kilvington] - Leicester (UK)
23 pictures from Medical Mycology - The Fifth Kingdom
On Fungal Pathogenicity [educ., GE Kaiser] - Baltimore (US)
Introduction to the Fungi - Berkeley (US)
Medical Mycology image library [J Weber] - Univ of Wisconsin Madison (US)
Search the CBS Filamentous Fungi Database - Baarn & Delft (NL)
Moulds - isolation, cultivation, identification [D Malloch] - Toronto (CA)
What are Yeasts? - Stanford (US), and Some (Classroom) Yeast Experiments
Fungal Infections in Humans, including Fungi Images, and Descriptions - Dr Fungus
Mycological Links at MykoWeb [M Wood]


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• Aspergillosis
  • Aspergillosis - CDC '99
  • About Aspergillosis [Morgan et al.] - IAPAC
  • About Pulmonary Aspergillos - Vanderbilt Med Center (US)
  • A case of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) [radiographs] - Virtual Hosp., Iowa (US)
  • Aspergillus Web Site [registration (no charge) required] - (UK)
• Candidiasis
  • The Candida Page [D. Weiss] - (US)
  • Oral Candidiasis and AIDS Fact Sheet [D. Schwab] - Project Inform
  • My 3.5 week old baby ... - Dr Greene
  • Brief note on Coating on the Tounge (children) - Sesame Street Parents (US)
  • Oral Candidiasis (Thrush) - P&G Dental Resource Net, and some patient photos [A Nouel]
  • Advice on Thrush - Patient Support Trust (UK)
  • About Candidiasis - Dr Fungus (US)
  • Picture of Candidiasis (axilla) - U of Iowa/Derm (US)
  • Neonatal Torulopsis glabrata Fungemia [Reich et al; case report] - Southern MedicalJournal, Feb '97
  • Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Candidiasis - IDSA (US)
  • Terconazole vs. Fluconazole for Treatment of Candidiasis - Am Family Physician,'97
  • Candidiasis discussion - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/One Man's Recovery
  • About Chronic Mucocutaneous Candidiasis, and Candida Hypersensitivity Syndrome/Chronic Candidiasis Syndrome - Dr Fungus
• Histoplasmosis (Darling's disease)
  • Histoplasmosis capsulati and Histoplasmosis duboisii - MMRC/UTMB (US)
  • Histoplasmosis Reference Laboratory - Indiana Univ. (US)
  • Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Histoplasmosis - IDSA (UA)
  • Ocular Histoplasmosis Syndrome (OHS) - Baller Eyecare Center (US)
  • About Ocular Histoplasmosis Syndrome - TheRetinaSource.com
  • Histoplasmosis and the Eye (Presumed Ocular Histoplasmosis Syndrome) - NEI/NIH (US)
  • Histoplasmosis - CDC (US)
  • Diagnostic testing of Histoplasmosis - UPCMD (US)
• Coccidioidomycosis (San Joaquin Fever)
  • Coccidioidomycosis - Adam, via MedlinePlus
  • Coccidioidomycosis - an update - Hospital Practice, 1998
  • Valley Fever Center for Excellence - AZ (US)
  • Coccidioidomycosis [MR McGinnis] - MMRC/UTMB (US)
  • About Coccidioidomycosis - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
  • Treatment of Coccidioidomycosis, Practice Guidelines - IDSA (US)
• Cryptococcosis
  • Brief technical info about Cryptococcosis - CDC/NCIDOD (US)
  • About Cryptococcosis - Medical Mycology, UTMB (US)
  • What Makes Cryptococcus neoformans a Pathogen? [Buchanan and Murphy] - CDC
  • About Cryptococcal Meningitis - AIDS Treatment Data Network
  • Cryptococcal Meningitis [M Harrington] - AidsInfoNYC.org
  • A Case of Disseminated Cryptococcosis - Univ of Pittsburgh (US)
• Onychomycosis
  • About Onychomycosis (, Lamisil and Sporanox) [S Roberts]
  • Onychomycosis - difficult to treat - SkinSite
  • Onychomycosis [Ratz and Blumberg] - eMedicine
• Zygomycosis
  • About Zygomycosis - Dr Fungus
  • A 63 y/o male with headache (Mucormycosis) - Univ of Iowa (US)
• Dermatomycoses
  • Tinea Corporis (Ringworm) [picture] - Univ of Iowa/Dermatology (US)
  • Tinea capitis in adults [Buckley et al.] - BMJ, May '00
  • About Sporotrichosis - New York State Dept. of Health (US)
  • Sporotrichosis - NCIDOD/CDC (US)
  • Blastomycosis - Vanderbilt U. (US)
  • Blastomycosis [patient photo] - The Fifth Kingdom
  • Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Blastomycosis - IDSA (US)
  • About Jock Itch ( Tinea Cruris ) - AOMC (US)
  • Athlete's Foot ( Tinea Pedis ) - APMA (US)
  • About Fungal Infections of the Skin - National Skin Centre (SG)

• A Zoonotic Diseases Tutorial [CW Olsen] - Univ of Wisconsin (US)
• Zoonoses [D. Shapiro] - Boston Univ. (US)
• Zoonotic Disease - things you can catch from your pet [M Richards]
• Zoonotic Tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium bovis in Developing Countries [Cosivi et al.] - CDC/NCIDOD
• Zoonosis Control Division - Texas Dept. of Health (US)
• An Overview of Zoonoses from Los Angeles Dept of Health/Veterinary (US)
• Zoonoses Acquired from Pet Primates [Rehnquist & Whitney] - via Primate Info Net (US)
• On Zoonotic Infections from Pets [G Morrison] - PostGradMed, Jul 2001
• About Monkeypox - WHO
• Infectious Diseases and Agriculture - Univ. of Maryland (US)
• Diseases of the Parrot Family which are Transmissible to Man - Budgerigar World (UK)
• Insects as Vectors of Diseases - Virginia Tech (US)