Infection = the invasion & multiplication of microbes in an area of the body where they are not normally present, which usually leads to disease. (An infection may cause no symptoms & be sub-clinical or it may cause varying degrees of symptoms & be clinically apparent.)
Infections - interactions and host risk factors
Classification of bacteria
Pyrexia of unknown origin
Fever in the returning traveller
Toxic Shock Syndrome
Schistosomiasis
Leptospirosis
Malaria
Malaria: non-falciparum
Lyme disease
Cat scratch disease
Toxoplasmosis
Dengue fever
Brucellosis
ESBL-producing gram-negative infections
Clostridium infections
Tetanus
Diphtheria
MRSA
Respiratory infections
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection
HIV: Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia
Mycoplasma pneumonia
Legionella Pneumophilia
Aspergilloma
Psittacosis
Q fever
GI Infections
Typhoid
Clostridium difficile
Camplyobacter Jejuni
H. Pylori infection
Cholera
Noravirus
Threadworm
Cryptosporidiosis
Toxoplasmosis
Giardiasis
Amoebiasis
Presentations
Fever in the returning traveller
STI: Ulcers
Genitourinary infections
HIV infection
Primary HIV infection
HIV: Diarrhoea
HIV: Kaposi’s sarcoma
Chlamydia
Gonorrhoea
Vaginal candidiasis
Bacterial vaginosis
Trichomonas vaginalis
Herpes Simplex virus
Genital warts (HPV)
Syphilis
Lymphogranuloma venereum
Chancroid
Pelvic Inflammatory disease
Infections of the nervous system
Ramsay Hunt syndrome
Rabies
Botulism
MSK infections
Septic arthiritis
Infectious disease drugs