Infectious diseases are diseases caused by biological agents, which can be transmitted to others, rather than by genetic, physical or chemical agents. This definition includes disease caused by viruses, bacteria, parasites and prions.

See also the List of infectious diseases.

Subcategories

There are 6 subcategories to this category.

E

• Epidemics

F

• Foodborne illnesses

I

• Infectious skin diseases

S

• SARS
• Serology

V

• Virology

Articles in category "Infectious diseases"

There are 172 articles in this category.

Infectious disease A Abscess Actinomycosis Adenitis Amoebiasis Anthrax disease Ascariasis Asian Flu Aspergillosis Asymptomatic carrier B Babesiosis Balantidium coli Baylisascaris Blood culture Bolivian haemorrhagic fever Bovine spongiform encephalopathy Bronchiolitis Buruli Ulcer C Candidiasis Cat scratch fever Cat-scratch fever Cellulitis Central nervous system infection Chagas disease Chickenpox Cholera Chronic Wasting Disease Clonorchiasis Coccidioidomycosis Colorado tick fever Common cold Conjunctivitis Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia Cowpox Coxsackie virus Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Cryptococcus neoformans Cryptosporidiosis Cysticercoid Cysticercosis Cytomegalovirus D Dengue fever Diphtheria Diphyllobothriasis Dipylidium caninum Dracunculiasis Dysentery E Ebola Echinococcosis Echinococcus multilocularis Ehrlichiosis El Tor Endemic typhus Enterobiasis Epiglottitis Epstein-Barr virus Ernest S. Tierkel

E cont. Erysipelas Exanthem subitum F Fasciolopsiasis Fecal-oral route Filariasis Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome Foodborne illness Free-living amebic infection G Giardiasis Gingivitis Glanders Gnathostomiasis Group A streptococcal infection H Henipavirus Histoplasmosis Hong Kong Flu Human parasitic diseases Hymenolepiasis I Infection Infectious mononucleosis Influenza J Japanese Encephalitis Jock itch K Katayama fever Koch's postulates Kuru (disease) L Lassa fever Legionellosis Leishmaniasis Lemierre's syndrome Leprosy Leptospirosis Listeriosis Lyme disease M Malaria Malaria and the Caribbean Marburg virus Measles Melioidosis Menangle virus Meningitis Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Monkeypox Mumps Myiasis Myxomatosis N Natural reservoir Necrotizing fasciitis Nocardiosis Nosocomial infection O Onchocerciasis Opportunistic infection Oral thrush Osteomyelitis P Parasitic disease Pelvic inflammatory disease Periodontal disease Peritonsillar abscess

P cont. Pertussis Phage therapy Pharyngitis Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia Polio Pseudomembranous colitis Q Q fever Quarantine R Rabies Relapsing fever Rhinovirus Rift Valley Fever Riggs' disease Rocky Mountain spotted fever Ross River virus Rotavirus Rubella S Salmonellosis Schistosomiasis Scrapie Scrub typhus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Shigellosis Sleeping sickness Smallpox Spanish flu St. Louis Encephalitis Sweating sickness T Tetanus Tick-borne disease Tonsil Toxoplasmosis Transmission (medicine) Trench fever Trichinosis Trichuriasis Tuberculosis Tularemia Tuskegee syphilis study Typhoid fever Typhus U UK statutory notification system Upper respiratory tract infection Urinary tract infection V Vaccine Vaccinia Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Viral hemorrhagic fever Virology W Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome West Nile encephalitis West Nile virus X Xenozoonosis Y Yaws Yellow fever Yersinia pestis Z Zoonosis