Contagious Diseases

Introduction: Contagious Diseases

Contagious Diseases: Any disease that can be transferred from person to person. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Contagious Diseases is available below.

Symptoms of Contagious Diseases

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Medical Textbooks Online about Contagious Diseases

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Wrongly Diagnosed with Contagious Diseases?

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Causes of Contagious Diseases

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Reseach about Contagious Diseases

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Clinical Trials for Contagious Diseases

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Contagious Diseases include:

• Skin Cleansing With Chlorhexidine to Decrease Hospital Acquired Infections - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - 2% chlorhexidine gluconate impregnated cloth
• Placebo-Controlled Trial of Safety and Efficacy of Thalidomide in Patients With Infections Due to Mycobacterium and/or HIV - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Thalidomide
• Inflammation, Infection, and Future Cardiovascular Risk - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Effects of MAC Preventive Therapy on Disease-Causing Bacteria in HIV-Infected Patients: A Substudy of CPCRA 048 - This study is no longer recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• A Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Azithromycin in Individual Patients With Serious Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease Who Are Failing or Intolerant of Other Available Therapy - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Azithromycin

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Statistics for Contagious Diseases

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Types of Contagious Diseases

• Diseases contagious from saliva
• Diseases contagious from kissing
• Diseases contagious during childbirth
• Diseases contagious contagious mother-to-fetus

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Definitions of Contagious Diseases:

Invasion and growth of microorganisms in body tissues, which may be clinically inapparent or result in local cellular injury; a local infection may persist and spread by extension to become an acute, subacute, or chronic clinical infection or disease state or it may become systemic when the microorganisms gain access to the lymphatic or vascular system; does not always lead to injury of the host even if the pathogen is potentially virulent. - (Source - Diseases Database)

A disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact - (Source - WordNet 2.1)