List of infectious diseases - Definition and Overview

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Human infectious diseases grouped by causative agent and alphabetically arranged.

Viral infectious diseases

AIDS -- AIDS Related Complex -- Chickenpox or Varicella -- Common cold -- Cytomegalovirus Infection -- Colorado tick fever -- Dengue fever -- Ebola haemorrhagic fever -- Epidemic parotitis -- Flu -- Hand, foot and mouth disease -- Hepatitis -- Herpes zoster -- Influenza -- Lassa fever -- Measles -- Marburg haemorrhagic fever -- Infectious mononucleosis -- Mumps -- Poliomyelitis -- Progressive multifocal leukencephalopathy -- Rabies -- Rubella -- SARS -- Smallpox or variola -- Viral meningitis -- West Nile disease -- Yellow fever

Bacterial infectious diseases

Anthrax -- Bacterial Meningitis -- Brucellosis -- Bubonic plague -- Campylobacteriosis -- Cholera -- Diphtheria -- Epidemic Typhus -- Gonorrhea -- Hansen's Disease -- Legionellosis -- Leprosy -- Leptospirosis -- Listeriosis -- Lyme Disease -- Melioidosis -- MRSA infection -- Nocardiosis -- Pertussis -- Pneumococcal pneumonia -- Psittacosis -- Q fever -- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever or RMSF -- Salmonellosis -- Scarlet Fever -- Shigellosis -- Syphilis -- Tetanus -- Trachoma -- Tuberculosis -- Tularemia -- Typhoid Fever -- Typhus -- Whooping Cough

Parasitic infectious diseases

African trypanosomiasis -- Amebiasis -- Ascariasis -- Babesiosis -- Chagas Disease -- Clonorchiasis -- Cryptosporidiosis -- Cysticercosis -- Diphyllobothriasis -- Dracunculiasis -- Echinococcosis -- Enterobiasis -- Fascioliasis -- Fasciolopsiasis -- Filariasis -- Free-living amebic infection -- Giardiasis -- Gnathostomiasis -- Hymenolepiasis -- Isosporiasis -- Kala-azar -- Leishmaniasis -- Malaria -- Metagonimiasis -- Myiasis -- Onchocerciasis -- Pediculosis -- Pinworm Infection -- Scabies -- Schistosomiasis -- Taeniasis -- Toxocariasis -- Toxoplasmosis -- Trichinellosis -- Trichinosis -- Trichuriasis -- Trypanosomiasis

Fungal infectious diseases

Aspergillosis -- Blastomycosis -- Candidiasis -- Coccidioidomycosis -- Cryptococcosis -- Histoplasmosis

Prion infectious diseases

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy -- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease -- Kuru

Notifiable infectious diseases

List of notifiable diseases

Infectious disease theory

Basic reproductive rate

References

Control of Communicable Diseases Manual edited by James B. Chin, APHA, 2000