Essential Health Links: Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases/Infectious Diseases, General


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International Laboratory-related resource and Activity Directory
International Travel and Health
PubMed - Free Fulltext Articles on Infectious/Communicable Diseases
le Site de l'infectiologie Française
WHO: Disease Outbreak News
WHO: Infectious Diseases

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International Laboratory-related resource and Activity Directory  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This subset of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Laboratory Systems website offers a number of manuals and training materials on good laboratory practice regarding a.o. HIV, tuberculosis and malaria produced by several organizations including WHO and IUATLD. Several of these are aimed specifically at low-income countries.  http://wwwn.cdc.gov/dls/ila/

International Travel and Health
This World Health Organization site describes the vaccination requirements of individual countries, and provides general advice on travel health. http://www.who.int/ith/

PubMed - Free Fulltext Articles on Infectious/Communicable Diseases (3400+)
This PubMed search will identify all infectious/communicable diseases related free fulltext ejournal articles within the database. Within the search results, there are links to the fulltext material. By repeating this search periodically, you will find new fulltext articles that are added to the PubMed database weekly. Essential Health Links contains similar searches for most subpages listed in the Specific Health Resources table of contents. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&details_term=%22loattrfree%20full%20text%22%5Bsb%5D%20AND%20%28%28%22communicable%20diseases%22%5BTIAB%5D%20NOT%20Medline%5BSB%5D%29%20OR%20%22communicable%20diseases%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20infectious%20diseases%5BText%20Word%5D%29
le Site de l'infectiologie Française   (Focus on Low-Income Countries)  (French only)
This site is maintained by the Société de Pathologie Infectieuse de Langue Française (SPILF) and the Collège des Universitaires de Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales. It contains French language information on infectious diseases (including bioterrorism): full-text documents, epidemiological news, training activities and conference calendar. http://www.infectiologie.com/site/index.php
WHO: Disease Outbreak News   (Focus on Low-Income Countries)  (Spanish, French, Russian, Chinese, Arabic)
This site provides reports of disease outbreaks based on data submitted to the WHO's Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response. The site serves as a tool to strengthen national and international capacity in the surveillance and control of communicable diseases. http://www.who.int/csr/don/en/
WHO: Infectious Diseases   (Focus on Low-Income Countries)  (French, Spanish)
This site provides full text fact sheets on tropical diseases, including Dengue fever, foodborne trematode infections, malaria, and schistosomiasis and access to the 'Action Against Infection' newsletter that also is available in pdf format in Spanish and French. The site also includes links to related Internet resources. http://www.who.int/topics/infectious_diseases/en/

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Updated: 29 January 2008