Causes, symptoms, research, history, treatment. Diseases caused by bacteria, viruses, viroids, prions.

Grade 10 Ms. Smith Lakewood High School   LHS Pathfinders Lakewood City Schools Lakewood Public Library

National Center for Infectious Diseases. Check out the Health Topics A-Z Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases.

National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. See the Virtual Library of Diseases.

An Introduction to Viruses from the Center for Complex Infectious Diseases.

Prion Diseases from Leicester University.

Prions from Prionics, Inc. in Zurich.

About.com links to information about prions.

Communicable Diseases from the New York State Dept. of Health.

Virus Diseases and Bacterial Infections and Mycoses from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.

The Journal of Infectious Diseases Electronic Edition.

Infection Detection Protection from the American Museum of Natural History.
 

Research Databases to Search in the Library:
OneSearch (Outside the Library OPLIN databases require an Ohio public library card for access.)

Books:

• Communicable disease by Thomas H. Metos. Main j616.9 612
• Communicable diseases by Jacqueline L. Harris. Main j616.9 Harris
• A field guide to germs by Wayne Biddle. Main 616.01 Biddle
• Magic shots : a human and scientific account of the long and continuing struggle to eradicate infectious diseases by vaccination by Allan Chase.  Main 614.4709 222
• Control of communicable diseases in man by the American Public Health Association. Main 614.4 Control
• Viruses, plagues & history by Michael B.A. Oldstone. Main 614.57 Oldstone
• Viruses by Arnold J. Levine Main 616.0194 559
• The virus invaders by Alan E. Nourse. Main & Madison j616.0194 6865
• Viruses / by Alan E. Nourse. Main j616.0194 687