A protozoan disease caused in humans by four species of the PLASMODIUM genus: PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM OVALE; and PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; and transmitted by the bite of an infected female mosquito of the genus ANOPHELES. Malaria is endemic in parts of Asia, Africa, Central and South America, Oceania, and certain Caribbean islands. It is characterized by extreme exhaustion associated with paroxysms of high FEVER; SWEATING; shaking CHILLS; and ANEMIA. Malaria in ANIMALS is caused by other species of plasmodia
An acute infectious disease of humans, particularly children, caused by any of three serotypes of human poliovirus (POLIOVIRUS). Usually the infection is limited to the gastrointestinal tract and nasopharynx, and is often asymptomatic. The central nervous system, primarily the spinal cord, may be affected, leading to rapidly progressive paralysis, coarse FASCICULATION and hyporeflexia. Motor neurons are primarily affected. Encephalitis may also occur. The virus replicates in the nervous system, and may cause significant neuronal loss, most notably in the spinal cord. A rare related condition, nonpoliovirus poliomyelitis, may result from infections with nonpoliovirus enteroviruses. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp764-5)
Programs of disease surveillance, generally within health care facilities, designed to investigate, prevent, and control the spread of infections and their causative microorganisms
Infection -- Prevention -- History : Intrusive interventions : public health, domestic space and infectious disease surveillance in England 1840-1914 / Graham Mooney
2015
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Infection -- Prevention -- Law and legislation : Infection control in long term care. Regulatory and administrative measures / Medcom ; director/editor, Jon Frank ; writer, Marcia Wellington
Infection -- Prevention -- Research -- Case studies. : Applying a qualitative approach to examine the implementation of mandatory health practice change within health care institutions / Victoria H. Raveis, Patricia W. Stone, Monika Pogorzelska-Maziarz
2017
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Infection -- Prevention -- Standards : Infection control. A training program for healthcare professionals / Medcom presents ; produced by Medcom/Trainex Inc
Infections with unicellular organisms formerly members of the subkingdom Protozoa
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Infection -- Research -- Congresses : National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH / edited by Vassil St. Georgiev, Karl A. Western, John J. McGowan
The classic form of typhus, caused by RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII, which is transmitted from man to man by the louse Pediculus humanus corporis. This disease is characterized by the sudden onset of intense headache, malaise, and generalized myalgia followed by the formation of a macular skin eruption and vascular and neurologic disturbances
Infection with flukes (trematodes) of the genus SCHISTOSOMA. Three species produce the most frequent clinical diseases: SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM (endemic in Africa and the Middle East), SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI (in Egypt, northern and southern Africa, some West Indies islands, northern 2/3 of South America), and SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM (in Japan, China, the Philippines, Celebes, Thailand, Laos). S. mansoni is often seen in Puerto Ricans living in the United States
Bacterial, viral, or parasitic diseases transmitted to humans and animals by the bite of infected ticks. The families Ixodidae and Argasidae contain many bloodsucking species that are important pests of man and domestic birds and mammals and probably exceed all other arthropods in the number and variety of disease agents they transmit. Many of the tick-borne diseases are zoonotic
Complications of BLOOD TRANSFUSION. Included adverse reactions are common allergic and febrile reactions; hemolytic (delayed and acute) reactions; and other non-hemolytic adverse reactions such as infections and adverse immune reactions related to immunocompatibility
The transmission of infectious disease or pathogens. When transmission is within the same species, the mode can be horizontal or vertical (INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL)
The transmission of infectious disease or pathogens. When transmission is within the same species, the mode can be horizontal or vertical (INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL)
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Infection -- Transmission -- Prevention : Infection control. A training program for healthcare professionals / Medcom presents ; produced by Medcom/Trainex Inc
Infection -- Treatment -- Congresses : Treating infectious diseases in a microbial world : report of two workshops on novel antimicrobial therapeutics / Committee on New Directions in the Study of Antimicrobial Therapeutics: New Classes of Antimicrobials ; Committee on New Directions in the Study of Antimicrobial Therapeutics: Immunomodulation, Board on Life Sciences, Division on Earth and Life Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies
