This disease list of
infections has been compiled in alphabetical order. In addition, the pathogens
have also arranged alphabetically.
• Anthrax: Propagation of
Bacillus anthracis in the body.
• Bacterial meningitis:
inflammation of the protective membranes of the central nervous system.
• Botulism: Blockade of
neuronal function and respiratory and musculoskeletal paralysis.
• Brucellosis: receipt of
Brucella bacteria by direct contact or untreated / contaminated milk from animals.
• campylobacteriosis: an
inflammatory and sometimes bloody diarrhea or dysentery.
• the cat scratch disease:
occur after 7 to 14 days or 2 months after a cat scratch, tender regional
lymphadenopathy, mild fever, headache, chills, malaise, abdominal pain, back
pain, cramps or sterile suppurative papules on the site of vaccination.
• Cholera: The transmission of
Vibrio cholerae by ingestion of contaminated food or water causes diarrhea.
• Diphtheria: upper
respiratory tract illness with sore throat, mild fever and an adherent coating
on the tonsils, nasal cavity, pharynx.
• spotted fever: caused by
louse-borne bacteria.
• Gonorrhea: most common
sexually transmitted disease caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
• Impetigo: superficial skin
infection common in the group 2-6 years
• Legionnaires' disease: mild
pneumonia or acute respiratory illness like influenza.
• Leprosy (Hansen's disease)
granulomatous disease of the peripheral nerves and mucosa of the upper
respiratory tract.
• Leptospirosis: a biphasic
disease with liver damage, meningitis, and renal failure.
• Listeriosis: occurs in
newborns, the elderly and patients with weakened immune systems.
• Lyme disease: skin rash and
flu symptoms of the musculoskeletal, psychiatric, neurological, cardiac and
arthritic manifestations followed.
• melioidosis: caused by
Burkholderia pseudomallei, which is located in the soil and water.
• MRSA infection: characterized
by rapid weight loss and muscle fatigue.
• Nocardia: Nocardia
asteroides or Nocardia brasiliensis affects either the lungs or the whole body.
• Pertussis (whooping cough),
followed by a severe cough, high intake of breath.
• Plague: Occurs when a person
is bitten by an infected flea.
• Pneumococcal pneumonia: lung
disease and respiratory tract, where the alveoli become inflamed and filled
with fluid.
• Psittacosis: Treaty of
parrots, pigeons, ducks, sparrows and seagulls.
• Q fever by inhaling contaminated
dust particles in the air or by contact with the vaginal mucosa, milk, feces,
semen, urine of infected animals.
• Rocky Mountain Spotted
Fever: Rickettsial most serious disease in the United States.
• Salmonellosis: the causes of
poisoning, typhoid, paratyphoid and food.
• Scarlet fever: Infection can
occur through blood or skin and underlying tissues.
• Shigellosis: diarrhea caused
by poor hygiene.
• Syphilis: Sexually
transmitted disease through sexual contact or congenital mode.
• Tetanus: prolonged
contraction of skeletal muscle fibers.
• Trachoma: an infectious
disease of the human eye, probably leading to blindness.
• Tuberculosis attacks the
lungs, most often, but can affect the central nervous system, blood
circulation, lymphatic system, bones, joints, genitourinary tract and skin.
• Tularemia: heachache,
fatigue, muscle aches, dizziness, nausea, loss of appetite, inflammation of the
eyes and face and lymph nodes.
• Typhoid: by ingesting food
or water mixed with the feces of an infected person.
• Typhoid: severe headache,
sustained high fever, severe muscle pain, rash, cough, chills, dizziness,
hypotension characterize delirium.
• Urinary tract infections:
cystitis or pyelonephritis.
Fungal Infection
• aspergillosis: pulmonary
aspergilloma or allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis and invasive
aspergillosis.
• Blastomycosis: Inhalation of
fungus of the natural habitat of the soil.
• Candidiasis: found in
exposed areas and wet body like the vagina, vulva, penis, prepuce, the skin
around the nose, nose, ears, mouth, nipples, folds of skin in the diaper area.
• Coccidioidomycosis: caused
by inhalation of air, particles called fungal arthroconidia.
• Cryptococcosis: caused by
inhalation of soil contaminated with yeast encapsulated.
• Histoplasmosis: primarily
affects the lungs.
• Tinea pedis: an effect on
the skin of the foot.
Parasitic diseases
• African trypanosomiasis:
transmitted by the tsetse fly. Symptoms include fever, headache and joint pain.
• Amoebiasis: by ingesting
contaminated food or water with amoebic cysts.
• ascariasis: by ingestion of
food containing Ascaris eggs contaminated with feces.
• Babesiosis: usually
transmitted by ticks.
• Chagas disease: transmitted
to humans by blood-sucking insects assassin.
• Clonorchiasis: caused by
liver fluke Chinese.
• Cryptosporidiosis: caused by
contaminated materials such as soil, water, uncooked or cross contamination of
food in contact with the stool of an infected person or animal.
• Cysticercosis: caused by the
larvae of the tapeworm, commonly found in pigs.
• Diphyllobothriasis:
characterized by abdominal pain, vomiting, weight loss and diarrhea.
• Dracunculiasis: caused by
drinking water containing infected copepods.
• Echinococcosis: fatal
disease caused by infection with the tapeworm larvae.
• pinworm infection: Infection
with pinworms, lack of appetite, restless sleep and itching at the anus.
• Fascioliasis: caused by
Fasciola hepatica and Fasciola gigantica.
• Fasciolopsis: caused when
water plants are eaten raw and unheated water to drink.
• filariasis: transmitted by
mosquitoes or deer flies.
• Free-living amoeba
infections: caused by Naegleria fowleri and bacterial vaginosis
cures species in lakes, tap
water, swimming pools and air conditioners.
• Giardiasis: begins in the
small intestine.
• gnathostomiasis: immature
worms due to migration.
• hymenolepiasis: caused by
Hymenolepis nana or Hymenolepis diminuta.
• Isosporiasis: Symptoms
include diarrhea and weight loss. Sometimes associated with AIDS.
• Leishmania: transmitted by
certain species of sand fly.
• Malaria transmitted by
female Anopheles mosquitoes.
• The Metagonimiasis: the
symptoms are diarrhea and colicky abdominal pain.
• Myiasis: caused by fly
larvae feeding on host tissue necrotic or living.
• Onchocerciasis: the second
leading infectious cause of blindness.
• lice: head lice on the human
body.
• Scabies: characterized by
superficial Burrows, secondary infection and severe itching.
• Schistosomiasis: due to
infection with blood flukes of damage leading to weakness, liver and intestine.
• Taeniasis: Infection with
the tapeworm pork and beef.
• Toxocariasis: caused by the
ingestion of dog or cat roundworm.
• Toxoplasmosis: ingestion of raw
or partially cooked meat, cat faeces contaminated drinking water containing
toxoplasma, transplacental infection of fetuses or infected organ transplants
or blood transfusions.
• Trichinellosis: caused by
eating raw or undercooked pork and wild game products infected with the larvae
of a nematode species.
• trichuriasis: infection of
the colon by a parasite whipworm.
• Trichomoniasis: Sexually
transmitted disease that infects the urogenital tract.
• trypanosomiasis: trypanosome
caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Trypanosoma.
Infectious prion diseases
• Alpers syndrome: a
progressive degenerative disease of the central nervous system.
• BSE: a deadly disease, a
neurodegenerative disease of cattle, people who eat infected carcasses is
transmitted.
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a
rare and incurable degenerative neurological disorder (brain disease).
• fatal familial insomnia: a
rare autosomal dominant hereditary brain that is fatal.
• Kuru: characterized by
headaches, joint pain and shaking members. Affects the brain and is fatal.
• Transmissible Spongiform
Encephalopathy: A group of progressive conditions that affect the brain and
nervous system.
The viral infections
• AIDS: a specific damage of
the immune system caused by HIV.
• AIDS-related complex: those
sensitive to opportunistic infections and tumors.
Varicella (chickenpox • The)
by varicella zoster virus causes spots and appear mainly on the body and head.
• Cold: upper respiratory
illness. Is also called acute viral nasopharyngitis.
• Cytomegalovirus infection:
the rule of the salivary glands, but can be found throughout the body.
The Colorado tick fever •: transferred from the bite of an infected
tick wood.
• Dengue fever transmitted by
the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
• Ebola hemorrhagic fever: the
symptoms are diarrhea, internal and external bleeding, fever, general body
aches and vomiting.
• disease Hand, foot and
mouth: A common cause is Coxsackie virus and mostly affects infants and
children.
• Hepatitis: characterized by
the presence of inflammatory cells in the liver.
• Herpes simplex: Symptoms
include itching, swelling, the emission of fluid from the swelling, headaches,
fatigue, sad mood generally.
• Shingles: influence of the
nervous system with or without the presence of a rash on the skin.
• HPV: DNA-based viruses that
infect the skin and mucous membranes.
• Influenza (flu) symptoms are
sore throat, fever, headache, muscle pain, weakness, coughing and discomfort.
• Lassa fever: first, mucous
membranes, intestines, lungs, urinary tract are affected, then the circulatory
system and then all the body tissues.
• Measles is spread by:
respiration and is highly contagious.
• Marburg hemorrhagic fever: propagation if body fluids such as
saliva, vomit, blood and excrement.
• Infectious mononucleosis:
common in adolescents and young adults that is characterized by fever, muscle
aches, sore throat, fatigue.
• Mumps: characterized by
painful swelling of the salivary glands and fever. Painful swelling and rash
may also occur testicles.
• Polio: spread from person to
person through other fecal-oral route, such as washing their hands of the poor.
• progressive multifocal
leukoencephalopathy: occurs only in people with severe immune deficiency.
• The rabies transmitted by
bites, aerosol through mucous membranes, the transplant surgery, or kisses.
• Rubella virus enters the
body through the nose or throat.
• SARS: Symptoms include
fever, lethargy, muscle aches, cough, sore throat, gastrointestinal symptoms.
• Smallpox (variola) by
variola major and variola minor causes. That the characteristic skin scars and
blindness due to corneal ulceration and sometimes cause infertility in male
victims.
• Viral encephalitis: acute
inflammation of the brain.
• viral gastroenteritis:
inflammation or infection of the gastrointestinal tract, most commonly the
stomach and intestines.
• Viral meningitis:
inflammation of the protective membranes of the nervous system.
• Viral pneumonia: a disease
of the lungs and airways.
• West Nile disease:
transmitted by the bite of an infected mosquito.
• Yellow fever: an important
cause of hemorrhagic illness in many African and South American.