Infectious Disease
A disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact.
This concept's ID is @1~71161
Contains
- rickettsial disease
Infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial...
- TB
Infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever...
- meningitis
Infectious disease characterized by inflammation of the meninges (the tissues that surround...
- epidemic disease
Any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people.
- dysentery
An infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea.
- leprosy
Chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical regions;...
- hepatitis
Inflammation of the liver caused by a virus or a toxin.
- herpes
Viral diseases causing eruptions of the skin or mucous membrane.
- ratbite fever
Either of two infectious diseases transmitted to humans by the bite of a rat or mouse;...
- mumps
An acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid g...
- rheumatic fever
A severe disease chiefly of children and characterized by painful inflammation of...
- sweating sickness
Epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating...
- dengue
An infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash...
- cholera
An acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food.
- typhoid
Serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; caused by Salmonella...
- yaws
An infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin...
- whooping cough
A disease of the respiratory mucous membrane.
- yellow jack
Caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito.
- AIDS
A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially...
- infectious mononucleosis
An acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an...
- listeriosis
An infectious disease of animals and humans (especially newborn or immunosuppressed...
- paratyphoid
Any of a variety of infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever.
- poliomyelitis
An acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and...
- brucellosis
Infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals...
- relapsing fever
Marked by recurring high fever and transmitted by the bite of infected lice or ticks;...