General information on selected infectious disease topics:

• Antibiotic Resistance
• Athlete's foot
• Campylobacter
• Chickenpox
• Chlamydia
• Clostridium difficile
• Cryptosporidium
• Avoiding infection on farm visits (PDF, 1 MB)
• Headlice  
• Impetigo 
• Influenza
• Legionnaires' disease
• Leptospirosis
• Listeria
• Malaria: Information for people travelling overseas
• Meningitis
• MRSA - Information for patients in hospital
• Mumps
• Parvovirus B19
• Pseudomonads
• Rubella
• Salmonella
• Salmonella infection in reptiles 
• Scarlet fever
• Threadworms
• Toxoplasmosis
• Tuberculosis
• Typhoid
• Whooping cough

 

 

• Typhoid – health advice for travellers
  Typhoid and paratyphoid are preventable diseases caused by salmonella bacteria. Typhoid occurs worldwide, but most cases in the UK are in travellers returning from Pakistan, Bangladesh or India and parts of Africa.
  Added/updated: 12 December 2011
  
• Clostridium difficile
  Clostridium difficile is an infection caused by bacteria. Symptoms include diarrhoea and other more serious conditions which affect the gut.
  Added/updated: 10 August 2011
  
• Avoiding infection on farm visits
  This leaflet contains information about avoiding infection on farm visits
  Added/updated: 20 April 2011
  
• Salmonella
  Added/updated: 28 March 2011
  
• Reducing the risks of salmonella infection from reptiles
  This leaflet describes the potential risks of infection with salmonella from a pet reptile and how these risks can be avoided.
  Added/updated: 21 December 2009
  
• Vero cytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) O157
  Added/updated: 23 September 2009
  
• Leptospirosis and Weil's disease
  Added/updated: 27 April 2009
  
• Toxoplasmosis
  Added/updated: 27 April 2009
  
• Chlamydia
  Added/updated: 27 April 2009
  
• Listeria Factsheet
  Added/updated: 27 April 2009
  
• Threadworm
  Added/updated: 23 October 2008
  
• Legionnaires' Disease
  Added/updated: 21 October 2008