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Infectious diseases (ID), also known as infectiology, is a medical specialty dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of infections. An infectious diseases specialist's practice consists of managing nosocomial (healthcare-acquired) infections or community-acquired infections. [1]
Three current centers were placed under the Coordinating Office for Infectious Diseases and later the Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases. [14] The National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases is an indirect successor to the Center for Infectious Diseases, one of the original centers established in 1980. [1]
Dr. Leana Wen: Norovirus is the leading cause of foodborne illness in the US. According to the CDC, it is responsible for 19 million to 21 million illnesses every year. It results in over 2.2 ...
Daniel O’Connell Griffin (born 15 July 1967) is an American infectious disease specialist. He is president of the nonprofit organization Parasites Without Borders. [1]Co-director of Life Science podcast network Microbe.TV, [2] Griffin broadcasts a weekly COVID Clinical Update [3] as part of This Week in Virology (TWiV) podcasts.
There’s even a risk of rupturing your eardrum, which Dr. Purnell has seen happen before. “You have to put some pressure into it, but it can happen,” he says. (Before you worry about this ...
Michael Thomas Osterholm (born March 10, 1953) is an American epidemiologist, Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
The Vaccine Research Center (VRC), is an intramural division of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The mission of the VRC is to discover and develop both vaccines and antibody-based products that target infectious ...
He is a co-editor of Krugman's Infectious Diseases of Children, 11th Edition, [50] and co-editor of Manson's Tropical Diseases, 23rd Edition and Feigin and Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 7th Edition. He is the co-author of the reference work called Parasitic Diseases, 5th Edition. [51]