Malaria
Practice Essentials Malaria is a potentially life-threatening parasitic disease caused by infection with Plasmodium protozoa transmitted...
Adenovirus Infection
Background Adenovirus, a DNA virus, was first isolated in the 1950s in adenoid tissue–derived cell cultures, hence the name. These...
Trending Clinical Topic: Hepatitis
A worldwide outbreak of acute, severe hepatitis in children has made headlines recently. This is in part because the precise cause has...
HIV Infection and AIDS
Practice Essentials Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a blood-borne virus typically transmitted via sexual intercourse, shared...
