🌡️ Interactive Visualization Fever & the Thermostat — turn the set-point up yourself Watch an infection turn the hypothalamic thermostat up on purpose — you shiver to reach the new set-point, then take an antipyretic and sweat as it drops back. Launch → 🪖 Interactive Visualization The Complement System — fire the blood's silent army Watch three trigger pathways converge to tag a bacterium, punch it open with the membrane-attack complex, and call in inflammation — then lose the self-protection proteins and see it turn on your own cells. Launch → 🎓 Interactive Visualization Vaccines — train the immune system without the disease Show your immune system a harmless preview of a germ and watch it build memory cells — then meet the real thing and see the fast secondary response stop it before you feel sick. Launch → ⚔️ Interactive Visualization Antibiotic Resistance — watch a superbug evolve Kill a colony with an antibiotic and watch a single resistant mutant survive and take over — then see bacteria destroy the drug with enzymes and pass resistance genes to their neighbours on plasmids. Launch →

Infectious Disease

Infectious Disease — scientific infographic poster

Conditions

🩹Cellulitis 🚽Clostridioides difficile Infection 🤧Common Cold 🧪Hepatitis 💉Hepatitis B 💊Hepatitis C 👄Herpes Simplex 🎗️HIV/AIDS 🚿Legionellosis (Legionnaires’ Disease) 🕷️Lyme Disease 🦟Malaria 🔴Measles 🧠Meningitis 😘Mononucleosis ⚠️Necrotizing Fasciitis 🚨Sepsis 😮Strep Throat 🫁Tuberculosis ⚡Shingles (Herpes Zoster) 😷Whooping Cough 🌴Dengue Fever 🌡️Typhoid Fever 🤮Norovirus 🖐️Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease 🫧Chickenpox (Varicella) ⛰️Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever 🏔️Colorado Tick Fever 🌲Tick-Borne Encephalitis ⏱️Powassan Virus 🐦West Nile Virus 🍂Blastomycosis 🌵Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever) 🦇Histoplasmosis

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Infectious disease focuses on illnesses caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites, including diagnosis, treatment, and prevention strategies.

Key Research Papers

Foundational and recent peer-reviewed publications across major infectious disease topics — antimicrobial resistance, vaccines, sepsis, tuberculosis, HIV, hepatitis, vector-borne disease, and emerging pathogens. Each citation links to the full text via DOI.

  1. Singer M, Deutschman CS, Seymour CW, et al. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3). JAMA. 2016;315(8):801–810. — doi:10.1001/jama.2016.0287
  2. Rhodes A, Evans LE, Alhazzani W, et al. Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock 2016. Intensive Care Medicine. 2017;43(3):304–377. — doi:10.1007/s00134-017-4683-6
  3. Pai M, Behr MA, Dowdy D, et al. Tuberculosis. Nature Reviews Disease Primers. 2016;2:16076. — doi:10.1038/nrdp.2016.76
  4. INSIGHT START Study Group. Initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy in Early Asymptomatic HIV Infection. New England Journal of Medicine. 2015;373(9):795–807. — doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1506816
  5. Cohen MS, Chen YQ, McCauley M, et al. Prevention of HIV-1 Infection with Early Antiretroviral Therapy (HPTN 052). New England Journal of Medicine. 2011;365(6):493–505. — doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1105243
  6. Mandell LA, Wunderink RG, Anzueto A, et al. Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society Consensus Guidelines on the Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2007;44(Suppl 2):S27–S72. — doi:10.1086/511159
  7. Lozano R, Naghavi M, Foreman K, et al. Global and Regional Mortality from 235 Causes of Death for 20 Age Groups in 1990 and 2010 (Global Burden of Disease 2010). Lancet. 2012;380(9859):2095–2128. — doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61728-0
  8. Chambers HF, Deleo FR. Waves of Resistance: Staphylococcus aureus in the Antibiotic Era. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 2009;7(9):629–641. — doi:10.1038/nrmicro2200
  9. Steere AC, Strle F, Wormser GP, et al. Lyme Borreliosis. Nature Reviews Disease Primers. 2016;2:16090. — doi:10.1038/nrdp.2016.90
  10. Ghany MG, Morgan TR; AASLD-IDSA Hepatitis C Guidance Panel. Hepatitis C Guidance 2019 Update: AASLD-IDSA Recommendations for Testing, Managing, and Treating Hepatitis C Virus Infection. Hepatology. 2020;71(2):686–721. — doi:10.1002/hep.31060
  11. Dondorp AM, Nosten F, Yi P, et al. Artemisinin Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum Malaria. New England Journal of Medicine. 2009;361(5):455–467. — doi:10.1056/NEJMoa0808859
  12. RTS,S Clinical Trials Partnership. Efficacy and Safety of RTS,S/AS01 Malaria Vaccine with or without a Booster Dose in Infants and Children in Africa: Final Results of a Phase 3, Individually Randomised, Controlled Trial. Lancet. 2015;386(9988):31–45. — doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60721-8
  13. Henao-Restrepo AM, Camacho A, Longini IM, et al. Efficacy and Effectiveness of an rVSV-Vectored Vaccine in Preventing Ebola Virus Disease: Final Results from the Guinea Ring Vaccination, Open-Label, Cluster-Randomised Trial (Ebola Ça Suffit!) Lancet. 2017;389(10068):505–518. — doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(16)32621-6
  14. van Nood E, Vrieze A, Nieuwdorp M, et al. Duodenal Infusion of Donor Feces for Recurrent Clostridium difficile. New England Journal of Medicine. 2013;368(5):407–415. — doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1205037
  15. McDonald LC, Gerding DN, Johnson S, et al. Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults and Children: 2017 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2018;66(7):e1–e48. — doi:10.1093/cid/cix1085
  16. Malfertheiner P, Megraud F, O'Morain CA, et al. Management of Helicobacter pylori Infection—the Maastricht V/Florence Consensus Report. Gut. 2017;66(1):6–30. — doi:10.1136/gutjnl-2016-312288

PubMed Topic Searches

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  1. PubMed: emerging infectious diseases
  2. PubMed: antimicrobial resistance
  3. PubMed: hospital-acquired infections
  4. PubMed: sepsis epidemiology
  5. PubMed: vaccine-preventable disease
  6. PubMed: zoonotic spillover
  7. PubMed: diagnostic stewardship
  8. PubMed: One Health
  9. PubMed: neglected tropical diseases
  10. PubMed: antibiotic stewardship

Connections

All Infectious & Disease Articles A–Z

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