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Antibiotics

Anti-Viral Drugs

Bacteriology (links to sites with specialist info on bacteria not covered elsewhere)

Bioterrorism

Biological reagent data sources

Culture & Biologicals Collections

Emerging / Environmental Infectious Diseases

Environmental Change Information

Epidemiology

Regional Microbiology / ID epidemiology reports

Foodborne Infectious Diseases & Food Poisoning

Hepatitis

HIV / AIDS

Hospital Infection Control

Internet / Web Resources

Journals with important micro / ID papers

Molecular Microbiology of ID

Medical News services

Mycology

Parasitology

Poliomyelitis

Professional organisations

Public Health sites

Searchable Medical/ID databases

STD

TB & Mycobacteria

Travel Health

Universities & Research Institutes (Australia)

Universities & Research Institutes (Worldwide)

Vaccination

Zoonoses Animal Toxins & Diseases

Miscellaneous Microbiology / Virology / ID sites

General WWW/Internet Search Engines

Other Useful data sources

 

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Antibiotics

Antibiotic Guide Medical College of Wisconsin
Empiric antibiotic therapy guidelines Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Pediatric Pharmacotherapy Web Newsletter

 

Anti-Viral Drugs

Antiviral Agents Bulletin Biotechnology Information Institute

 

Bacteriology (mixed links)

Group B Streptococcus

 

Biological Reagent data sources

Amino Acid Information Prowl
Extoxnet Toxicology info

Bioterrorism

UCLA Department of Epidemiology

 

Culture & Biologicals Collections

American Type Culture Collection (ATCC)
Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server
British type culture collection guide
German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures
List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature The official nomenclature of bacteria
MSDN - Microbial Strain Data Network A list of collections around the world
World Federation for Culture Collections World Data Centre for Microorganisms

 

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Emerging / Environmental Infectious Diseases

Addressing emerging infectious disease threats: a prevention strategy for the United States (CDC)
EIINet Yale emerging ID network
EMC (Emerging and other Communicable Diseases, WHO reports)
Emerging and re-emerging viruses: an essay. by Alison Jacobson, University of Cape Town
Emerging Infections Network - IDSA
Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal published by the NCID, CDC, Atlanta
Global Microbial Threats in the 1990s CISET. USA 1995
Mathematical Evolutionary Theory (Uni Tennessee teaching module with useful background Info)
Outbreak. A site for emerging ID. Registration necessary Listserv available
Virus Outbreak World Health Organization viral outbreak information
WHO Report on Infectious Diseases

 

Environmental Change

US Global Change Research Program
Eberhard Wenzel HomePage A mix of environmental and public health

 

Epidemiology

Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics UCSF, USA - Extensive epidemiology links page
Australasian Epidemiological Association
Public Health Association of Australia

 

Foodborne Infectious Diseases & Food Poisoning

Online Schools Guide to E. Coli Resources
Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins US FDA "The bad bug book"
Institute of Food Science and Technology Position statements and summaries of foodborne ID

 

General WWW/Internet Search Engines & Utilities

Altavista (US main server)
Altavista (Telstra Australia mirror + White & Yellow pages)
Bloody Big Search Engine (uses multiple engines simultaneously)
Google
Lycos
Web Wombat (Australia & NZ searches plus all the Web)
NlightN (multiple database searches Registration (free) reqd)
Yahoo

 

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Handy Internet / Web Resources

The Annotated Internet Resources Page. Lots of Links and info on tools for the internet
The Cross-Platform Page Great list of utilites for dealing with most file types you will find on the internet, for all platforms!

 

Hepatitis

Hepatitis weekly

 

HIV / AIDS

AIDS Gopher The National Institutes of Health
AIDS weekly
CDC AIDS daily summaries
CDC National AIDS Clearinghouse HIV/AIDS and STD resources
Global Programme on AIDS WHO
HIVNET Global Electronic Network for AIDS, Europe Gopher
HIV Electronic Media Information Review: NCHVR (Australia) A newsletter summarising items relating to HIV/AIDS

 

Hospital Infection Control

APIC Infection control professional association (listserv available)
CDC Hospital Infection Control Information
Compliance Control Center Handwashing Info
The Epidemiology and Prevention Interventions Center (UCSF USA) post HIV-exposure prophylaxis protocol
Statewide Infection Control Program Uni North Carolina

 

Journals with important micro / ID papers

Annals of Internal Medicine
Archives of Internal Medicine
British Medical Journal (BMJ)
Cell / Immunity
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
Journal of Medical Microbiology
Reviews in Medical Microbiology
The Lancet
The Medical Journal of Australia
Nature
New England Journal of Medicine
New Scientist
Science
Journal of Infectious Diseases
Clinical Infectious Diseases

 

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Medical News Services

Medscape Searchable archives of public health files, medline & information on how to join
Reuter's Health Information Services (subscriber service)
Promed Home Page Federation of American Scientists
Promed E-conference page Archives & how to subscribe
Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists Medical
WWW Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences (Listserv index)

 

Miscellaneous Microbiology / Virology / ID sites & links

All the virology on the Web A big range of virology related pages and links
Bug bytes
Communicable Disease Factsheets New York State Health Department
Hardin Meta Directory - Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Links
Harvard University Microbiology & Virology Excellent wide-ranging links page
ID Links A commercial US site with a few useful links
Index Virum Viral taxonomy (ANU)
Infectious Disease News
Infectious Diseases in Children
Infectious Disease Weblink
Links2Go (Virology)
Lyme Disease Foundation
Lots Of Links On Lyme Disease
Medical Microbiology (Neal Chamberlain's look at the Microbial World!)
Medweb: Infectious Disease page
Microbes.info - The Microbiology Information Portal
Microbiology Links
Microbiology Underground
Microbionet
National Center for Infectious Diseases. CDC NCID
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease NIH / NIAID gopher
Pathology & Virology Center Martindale's Health Science Guide
Plant viruses online ANU VIDE database
Stealth Virus Program. University of Southern California
The tree of life. On-line phylogeny
University of Southampton Biomedical World Wide Web server
Virology Down Under

 

Molecular Microbiology of ID

ANGIS The Australian National Genomic Information Service
European Molecular Biology Laboratory EMBL
Institute for molecular Virology (Uni Wisconsin)
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI USA) Entrez, genebank etc
National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. Bethesda, MD
Northeast Regional RFLP Laboratory for DNA Typing.(Wadsworth Center, NY dept health)

 

Mycology

Mycology Resources Page WWW virtual Library

 

Other Useful data sources

CIA world factbook 1996 - amazingly comprehensive!
E-Mail Discussion Groups (General)
EthnoMed Cultural Information for dealing with medical issues in ethnic groups
Population Reference Bureau World-wide population demographics
US National Library of Medicine

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Parasitology

American Society of Parasitologists lots of good info & links
Australian Malaria Register
The American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene
Cryptosporidiosis Information (CDC)
Heinrich Heine University
Malaria  Foundation
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Excellent parasitology pictures

 

Poliomyelitis

The Polio Eradication Initiative
The Post-Polio Network

 

Professional organisations

American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Association of Immunologists
American Public Health Association
American Society for Microbiology
American Society for Rickettsiology
Australian Academy of Science
Australian Society for Microbiology
Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases
Infectious Diseases Society of America
NATA (Australia)
Pan American Society for Clinical Virology
Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia
List of world ID societies

 

Public Health sites

American Public Health Association Public Health Resources
Australian Centre for International & Tropical Health & Nutrition Public Health Links
Cambridge University UK, Public Health Page Extensive list of links to World Wide Web sites
Centre for Comparative Infectious Diseases
Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (UK)
Centre for Complex Infectious Diseases (CCID)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) World Wide Web site
DHS Victoria. Public health pages index
DHS Victoria. Public news releases & health alerts
Florida Statewide Public Health Information Network
Laboratory Centre for Disease Control Health Canada
Pacific Public Health Surveillance Network
Public Health Information Guide Arizona Health Sciences Library
Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention
UK Health Protection Agency
World Health Organization (WHO) Geneva

 

Regional Microbiology / ID epidemiology reports

CDI Australia
CDC USA epo list of bulletins worldwide
EuroSurveillance EEC Communicable diseases bulletin (English version)
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) from CDC Atlanta
CDSC (Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre) UK
Sentiweb French sentinal GP network & surveillance
Statens Serum Institute Danish Epidemiology Reports
Washington State Dept of Health
WER WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record
Canada Communicable Disease Report

 

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Searchable Medical/ID databases

Gideon Global Infectious Disease & Epidemiology Network
Medical Matrix: An exhaustive set of links to clinical medical resources on the internet
Medline (John Hopkins Uni)
Medline (Healthy net / NCBI)
Medline (Healthgate)a
Mednet The Society for the Internet in Medicine UK
Medscape Searchable archives of public health files, medline & information on how to join
National Center for Emergency Medicine Informatics
DHS Victoria. Public news releases & health alerts
PubMed Retrieval System NCBI (wider than medline)
US National Library of Medicine (The Home of Medline plus other vital databases - now free!)

 

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Clinic 275 South Australian STD clinic
The Johns Hopkins University STD Research Group Many links to STD information resources
Melbourne Sexual Health Centre Victorian STD clinic
Sexually Transmitted Diseases as indexed on the Yahoo server
Sexual Health Advocacy and Peer Education Home Page: Information about STD

 

TB & Mycobacteria

People's Plague Online a companion to the public television program The People's Plague: Tuberculosis in America
Stanford Center for Tuberculosis Research
Stanford Teaching Module Prevention and Treatment of Tuberculosis
TB weekly
Tuberculosis Resources. New York City Department of Health
Tuberculosis Internet Resources Columbia University
WHO Global Tuberculosis Programme
Victorian Dept of Human Services TB Information
Victorian Dept of Human Services Guidelines for TB management

 

Travel Health

Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology (tables of contents)
CDC USA Travel health information
CDC Yellow book for travellers
International Travel and Health - Vaccination Requirements and Health Advice - WHO
Travellers Medical & Vaccination Clinic, Melbourne

 

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Universities & Research Institutes (Australia)

Australian Research Council
CSIRO Australia
James Cook University Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Latrobe University Microbiology Dept
Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research
Monash University Microbiology Dept
National Serology Reference Laboratory (NRL) responsible for quality in Australian serology
NH&MRC
RMIT Faculty of Biomedical and Health Sciences
University of Melbourne Micro Dept & Microbiological Diagnostic Unit
The Walter & Eliza Hall institute of Medical Research, Melbourne Australia
General Australian University Website Addresses (compiled by Swinburne)

 

Universities & Research Institutes (worldwide)

Belgium Prince Leopold Institute for Tropical Medicine (ITG.IMT)
South Africa National Institute for Virology
South Africa Uni of Capetown Microbiology Dept
USA Emory Uni Dept Medicine ID Division
General list of Worldwide University Website Addresses (© Copyright 1995 Christina DeMello)

 

Vaccination

Global Programme for Vaccines and Immunization (GPV). WHO
Immunization Action Coalition & Hepatitis B Coalition (USA)
The DNA Vaccine web. All about DNA vaccines
The Vaccine Page. Extensive links
The WHO Immunisation, Vaccines & Biologicals site

 

Zoonoses, Animal Toxins & Diseases

Animal Pathogens / Zoonoses : The University of Tennessee, Memphis
Centers for epidemiology and animal health USA
OIE world organisation for animal health animal disease info
Rabies Home Page
Selected Medical Herpetology, Emerging Diseases, "Snakebite"and Wilderness Medicine Websites
The Official Mad Cow Disease Home Page (BSE / CJD etc)
UCSB Office of research Zoonotic disease info

 

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