Infectious disease resources for professionals
This professional section focuses on infectious disease, offering in-depth content for healthcare professionals involved in diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing management. You'll find articles exploring key clinical considerations, guideline updates, and common challenges encountered in real-world practice. Each piece is written or reviewed by UK clinicians to ensure relevance and accuracy for multidisciplinary teams.
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- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
- Actinomycosis
- Acute diarrhoea in adults
- Acute exacerbations of COPD
- Acute otitis media in adults
- Advising patients travelling to remote locations
- African trypanosomiasis
- American trypanosomiasis
- Amoebiasis
- Angiostrongyliasis
- Anisakiasis
- Anogenital warts
- Antenatal infections and their consequences
- Anthrax
- Antifungal medications
- Antimicrobial eye preparations
- Ascaris lumbricoides
- Aspergillosis
- Aspiration pneumonia
- Babesiosis
- Balanitis
- Bartonellosis
- Blind treatment of bacterial infection
- Blood cultures
- Body cavity filariasis
- Boils and carbuncles
- Bornholm disease
- Botulism
- Bronchiectasis
- Bronchiolitis
- Brucellosis
- Burkitt's lymphoma
- Buruli ulcer
- Campylobacteriosis
- Candidiasis
- Cat scratch disease
- Cellulitis and erysipelas
- Centor score
- Chickenpox
- Chikungunya fever
- Chlamydial genital infection
- Cholangitis
- Cholera and cholera vaccination
- Chronic hepatitis
- Chronic suppurative otitis media
- Clostridial infection
- Colorado tick fever
- Common childhood rashes
- Common cold
- Complications of HIV infection
- Congenital HIV and childhood AIDS
- Congenital rubella syndrome
- Congenital, perinatal and neonatal infections
- Conjunctivitis
- COVID
- Coxsackievirus infection
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- Croup
- Cryptococcosis
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Cutaneous filariasis
- Cutaneous larva migrans
- Cyclosporiasis
- Cytomegalovirus
- Dacryocystitis and canaliculitis
- Dengue
- Dermatophytosis
- Diagnosing the tropical traveller
- Diphtheria and diphtheria vaccination
- Ehrlichiosis
- Encephalitis and meningoencephalitis
- Endophthalmitis
- Erythema chronicum migrans
- Erythema induratum
- Escherichia coli O157
- Fasciola hepatica
- Fasciolopsis and other intestinal flukes
- FeverPAIN score
- Fitz-Hugh Curtis syndrome
- Fungal lung infections
- Fungal nail infections
- Gangrene
- Gas gangrene
- Gastroenteritis in adults and older children
- Gastroenteritis in children
- Generalised lymphadenopathy
- Genital herpes in pregnancy
- Genital herpes simplex
- Giardiasis
- Gnathostomiasis
- Gonorrhoea
- Guinea worm disease
- Haemophilus influenzae
- Hand, foot and mouth disease
- Hantavirus infection
- Head lice
- Helicobacter pylori
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Herpes simplex eye infections
- Herpes viruses
- Herpes zoster oticus
- HIV and skin disorders
- HIV counselling
- HIV post-exposure prophylaxis
- Hoarseness
- Hookworm infections
- Human immunodeficiency virus
- Hydatid disease
- Impetigo
- Infectious mononucleosis
- Infective conjunctivitis
- Infective endocarditis
- Inflammatory retinal diseases
- Influenza
- Insect bites and stings
- Interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome
- Japanese encephalitis and Japanese encephalitis vaccination
- Kaposi's sarcoma
- Kartagener's syndrome
- Kawasaki disease
- Laryngitis
- Lassa fever, Marburg and Ebola virus
- Legionnaires' disease
- Leishmaniasis
- Leprosy
- Leptospirosis
- Lipodystrophy syndrome
- Listeriosis
- Liver cysts and abscesses
- Löffler's disease
- Long COVID
- Lower respiratory tract infection in children
- Lung abscess
- Lyme disease
- Lymphatic filariasis
- Lymphogranuloma venereum
- Malaria
- Malaria in pregnancy
- Malaria prophylaxis
- Management of HIV in pregnancy
- Managing HIV-positive individuals in primary care
- Mastoiditis
- Measles
- Melioidosis and glanders
- Meningitis
- Meningococcal disease
- Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
- Mollaret's meningitis
- Molluscum contagiosum
- Moraxella catarrhalis
- Mucormycosis
- Mumps
- Mycetoma
- Mycobacterial skin infections
- Mycobacterium avium complex
- Myocarditis
- Necrotising enterocolitis
- Necrotising fasciitis
- Nocardia
- Norovirus
- Notifiable diseases
- Ophthalmia neonatorum
- Opisthorchiasis
- Oral herpes simplex
- Oral ulceration
- Orbital and preseptal cellulitis
- Osteomyelitis
- Otomycosis
- PANDAS
- Paragonimiasis
- Parvovirus infection
- Pathogenic free-living amoeba
- Pelvic abscesses
- Pelvic inflammatory disease
- Peritonsillar abscess
- Petrositis
- Pityriasis lichenoides
- Pityriasis rosea
- Pityriasis versicolor
- Plague
- Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia
- Pneumonia
- Polio and polio vaccination
- Post-polio syndrome
- Postherpetic neuralgia
- Primary HIV infection
- Problems in the mouth
- Prolonged diarrhoea or vomiting
- Prostatitis
- Pseudomembranous colitis
- Pseudomonas
- Psittacosis
- Pubic and body lice
- PVL-positive Staphylococcus aureus
- Pyelonephritis
- Q fever
- Rabies
- Rat-bite fever
- Recurrent abdominal pain in children
- Recurrent urinary tract infection
- Relapsing fever
- Rheumatic fever
- Ross river virus infection
- Rotavirus and rotavirus vaccination
- Roundworms
- Rubella
- Salmonella gastroenteritis
- Scabies
- Scarlet fever
- Schistosomiasis
- Scrub typhus
- Seborrhoeic dermatitis
- Sepsis
- Septic arthritis
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome
- Sexual history taking
- Sexually transmitted infections
- Shigellosis
- Shingles
- Smallpox
- Sore throat
- Spinal tuberculosis
- Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
- Strongyloidiasis
- Sydenham's chorea
- Syphilis
- Systemic mycoses
- Tapeworms
- Tetanus and tetanus vaccination
- Threadworms
- Tick-borne encephalitis and tick-borne encephalitis vaccination
- Tinea capitis
- Tonsillitis
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Toxocariasis
- Toxoplasmosis
- Trachoma
- Travel vaccinations
- Traveller's diarrhoea
- Treating infections
- Trematodes
- Trichinellosis
- Trichuriasis
- Tropical spastic paraparesis
- Tropical sprue
- Tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis prevention and screening
- Tularaemia
- Typhoid and paratyphoid fever
- Typhus
- UK immunisation schedule
- Urethritis in men
- Urinary tract infection in adults
- Urinary tract infection in children
- Vaginal and vulval candidiasis
- Vaginal discharge
- Verrucae
- Vulval problems
- West Nile virus
- Whipple's disease
- Whooping cough
- Yellow fever and yellow fever vaccination
- Zika virus