Immunology/Infectious Disease

[Articles] [Associations] [General Websites] [Governmental Websites] [HIV/AIDS page] [Infection Control] [Lyme's Disease page] [University Websites] [West Nile Virus page]

Associations

• American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

• American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association

• Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. - Offers current infection control news, online continuing education, and professional standards

General Websites

• All the Virology on the WWW

• Antibiotic Guide: Treatment Recommendations for Common Infections - From the Froedtert Hospital, Division of General Internal Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin

• Compliance Control Center - Infection control in restaurant and medical settings

• Enemy Within page from the National Women's Health Information 

• Infection Control Services

• Infectious Disease WebLink - Contains a large number of links to sites related to infectious disease

• Internet Infection Control Resources for Long-Term Care Facilities - From Broad Street Solutions

• Microbes.info - A wonderful collection of links on microbiology; would be great for microbiology students.

• National Foundation for Infectious Diseases - Offers information on traditional and emerging infections, bioterrorism, immunization, prevention, and treatment

• Visual Health Resources - Posters and other products to help spread the word on good hand hygiene, handwashing, alcohol hand gels, and more; some free products available

Governmental Websites

• Communicable Disease Fact Sheets - From the Wisconsin Department of Health & Family Services, access .pdf files on a multitude of communicable diseases

• National Center for Infectious Diseases

• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

• New Technologies to Prevent Intravascular Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections - 2001 document from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
• Surgical Infection Prevention - from the Medicare Quality Improvement Community

• The U.S. Centers for Disease Control - The latest in infectious disease, plus access to the Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal and the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Infection Control

• CDC recommendations for handwashing

• Procedures from the Yale Medical School

• Preventing Intravenous Catheter-Associated Infections: An Update

HIV/AIDS Page

Lyme Disease Page

University Websites

• Boston University Medical Center's Community Outreach Health Information System - Infectious disease information

• Epidemiology and Prevention Interventions Center  - From the University of California at San Francisco

• North Carolina Statewide Program for Infection Control and Epidemiology

• University of Michigan Infection Control and Epidemiology page

West Nile Virus Page

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Celebrating the life of Christopher Edward Sheets,

10/11/74 - 10/12/02, son, friend, and mentor.

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