Electronic resources for Bite-sized EBL sessions on
Infectious Diseases
All articles accessed on 23/06/07
AIDS
You are HIV positive (Personal experience of medical student)
WHO Health Statistics
(p11)
HIV (Biological info)
Rock Hudson biography (official website)
Rock Hudson biography
War against AIDS (‘Invention & Technology Magazine)
Pneumonia
Public info about pneumonia, on website of American Lung Association
Article on diagnosis and management of pneumonia (BMJ)
Hoare & Lim (2006) BMJ 332: 1077-9.
Photograph of pmeumococcus pneumoniae bacteria in lung tissue (American Academy of Pediatrics)
Wordsearch activity for clinical features of pneumonia, plus one red herring (Student BMJ)
NHS stats on pneumococcal pneumonia
Sir William Osler biography, online encyclopedia
Sir William Osler biography, John Hopkins Medical Institutions archives
Poliomyelitis
Poliomyelitis and the postpolio syndrome (clinical review in BMJ)
Howard (2005) BMJ 330: 1314-1318.
How the poliovirus works, from website created to coincide with an exhibition at Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
The Salk and Sabin vaccines vs. polio, from website created to coincide with an exhibition at Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
Biography of FDR, from website created to coincide with an exhibition at Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt
The president and the wheelchair (Literary criticism in The Wilson Quarterly)
Clausen (2005) Wilson Quarterly 29 (3): 24-29.
Photo of child with limb deformities as a consequence of polio (American Academy of Pediatrics)
Syphilis
Syphilis
Syphilis (Public info website of American Social health Association)
Syphilis: Old problem, new strategy (medical education article)
Doherty et al 2002 BMJ 325: 153-6.
NHS stats for cases of syphilis in Wales 1995-2001
Oscar Wilde’s terminal illness (article in The Lancet)
Schubert biography
Schubert biography (2)
Picture of bacterium that causes syphilis
Complete genome sequence of syphilis bacterium (article in Science)
Fraser et al (1998) Science 281 (5375): pp. 375 – 388.
Tuberculosis
Poster for 20th-century campaign to eradicate TB
Article on diagnosis and treatment of TB
Campbell & Bah-Sow (2006) BMJ 332: 1194-7.
Drug resistance in TB, scientific article.
Mitchison (2005) Eur. Respir. J. 25: 376-9.
WHO Health Statistics
(p18)
BBC biography of John Keats
Abstract of article about John Keats
Michael (1995) European Romantic Review 6(1): 38-56.
(then search ‘pectoriloquy’)
Biog of Keats
Article about a project to look for genes associated with susceptibility to TB, from website of SIPAGE – a network of scientists and medics