Infectious and Vector-Borne Diseases One: Mumps, Measles, Whooping Cough, Cholera, Enteric Fevers, Dysentery, Brucellosis, Chickenpox and Tuberculosis

An infectious disease course that takes each condition in turn - mumps with its epidemiology, virology as a paramyxovirus, transmission, predisposing factors, clinical features and complications; measles; myelitis; whooping cough; cholera; the enteric fevers; bacillary dysentery from shigellosis and amoebic dysentery; brucellosis; chickenpox; and tuberculosis with the treatment regimens. For each it gives who is at risk, the causative organism and its properties, how it spreads, the clinical picture, the diagnosis, the management and the prevention.