GIDEON update 1997.3
September 1, 1997
Software Improvements
A new module has been developed in collaboration with the Tropical Disease Research [TDR] section of W.H.O. For details press [F1 Help] in the module.
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Clinical database updated: Dengue,
Chikungunya,
Eastern equine encephalitis, Epidemic typhus, Granuloma
inguinale, Bacillus cereus food poisoning
Epidemiology:
Global distribution updated: Angiostrongyliasis -
abdominal, Babesiosis, Cholera, Ehrlichiosis - human
granulocytic, Hantavirus resp. distress, Melioidosis
Notes expanded or added:
<Worldwide> notes for individual diseases have been
extensively expanded - take time to review them.
All reportable diseases: Canada, Israel, Mexico,
Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom
Abscess - intraabdominal
<Worldwide>
Amebiasis
Mexico
Angiostrongyliasis - abdominal Dominica
Anthrax
Ghana,
<Worldwide>
Ascariasis
<Worldwide>
Aseptic meningitis
Israel, Japan
Babesiosis
Taiwan
Blastocystis infection
Japan
Botulism
<Worldwide>
Brucellosis
Brazil, Colombia,
Jordan, Lebanon,
Saudi Arabia,
<Worldwide>
Campylobacteriosis
Spain
Chancroid
<Worldwide>
Chlamydia trachomatis infx.
Sweden, <Worldwide>
Clostridium difficile colitis United
Kingdom
Crimean Congo hem fever
Saudi Arabia
Cryptococcosis
Denmark
Cryptosporidosis
Mexico, United
Kingdom, Yugoslavia
Cyclospora infection
Canada, Peru, United
States
Cutaneous leishmaniasis
Jordan, Peru
Dengue
All countries,
<Worldwide>
Diphtheria
Bangladesh, Bhutan,
India, Indonesia,
Maldives, Myanmar,
Nepal, Russia, Sri
Lanka, Thailand,
United Kingdom,
United States
Dirofilariasis
Sri Lanka
Echinococcosis
Sudan
Ehrlichiosis - human granluoc. Norway, United
States, Yugoslavia
Endemic syphilis
United Arab Emirates
Enterovirus infections
Malaysia
Escherichia coli diarrhea
Denmark, Finland,
Germany, Japan,
United Kingdom,
United States,
<Worldwide>
European tick encephalitis
Czechoslovakia,
Germany, Greece,
Russia, Sweden,
Yugoslavia,
<Worldwide>
Far Eastern tick encephalitis Russia,
<Worldwide>
Fascioliasis
Bolivia, <Worldwide>
Filariasis - Bancroftian
Country-specific
vectors and microfilaria patterns updated for
all
countries
Filariasis - Brugia
Country-specific
vectors and microfilaria patterns updated for
all
countries
Gonorrhea
Australia, Canada,
Sweden, United
Kingdom
Granuloma inguinale
<Worldwide>
Hantavirus - Old World
China, Russia,
Spain, <Worldwide>
Hantavirus resp. distress
Argentina, Paraguay,
United States,
Uruguay, <Worldwide>
Hepatitis A
Belgium, Norway,
Yemen
Hepatitis B
Bangladesh,
Belgium, Belize,
Taiwan, United
Kingdom, Yemen
Hepatitis C
Czechoslovakia,
Egypt, France,
Guinea, United
Kingdom
Hepatitis E
Argentina, Chile,
Greece, Yemen
Hepatitis G
China, Pakistan,
Taiwan
Hookworm
Nigeria
Influenza
<Worldwide>
Japanese encephalitis
Australia
Lagoschilascariasis
Bolivia
Lassa fever
Sierra Leone
Legionellosis
Australia, France,
Netherlands, Norway,
Spain, Sweden
Leprosy
All countries,,
<Worldwide>
Leptospirosis
Spain
Listeriosis
United States
Lyme disease
France, United
States
Measles
All Latin American
and Caribbean countries, Bangladesh, Bhutan,
Canada, Denmark, Greece, India, Indonesia,
Korea,
Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Niue,
Sri
Lanka, Sweden, Thailand, United Kingdom,
<Worldwide>
Melioidosis
Malaysia
Mediter. [etc] spotted fever Brazil,
Japan
Meningitis - bacterial
Australia, New
Zealand, Spain,
United Kingdom
Mumps
Costa Rica
Murray Valley encephalitis
Australia
Onchocerciasis
Cameroon, Guatemala,
Mexico, Nigeria,
Venezuela,
<Worldwide>
Opisthorchiasis
Thailand
Ornithosis
<Worldwide>
Oropouche
Brazil
Parvovirus B19 infection
United Kingdom
Pericarditis
United Kingdom
Pertussis
Australia,
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Costa Rica, Denmark, India,
Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Maldives, Myanmar,
Nepal,
Netherlands, Sri Lanka, Thailand
Plague
Bolivia, Madagascar,
Mongolia,Russia, Tanzania, Viet Nam, Zambia,
Zimbabwe
Poliomyelitis
Bangladesh, Bhutan,
Egypt, India, Indonesia, Korea, Maldives,
Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand,
<Worldwide>
Q fever
Israel
Rabies
All Reporting
Countries,
<Worldwide>
Rheumatic fever
<Worldwide>
Rift Valley fever
Senegal, <Worldwide>
Roseola & herpesvirus 6
<Worldwide>
Ross River disease
Australia, United
States
Rubella
Canada, Costa Rica,
Denmark, <Worldwide>
Salmonellosis
United Kingdom
Schistosoma haematobium
Morocco, Tanzania
Schistosoma intercalatum
Sao Tome and
Principe, Zaire,
<Worldwide>
Schistosoma mansoni
Brazil, Puerto Rico
Shigellosis
Australia
Sindbis
Australia
Syphilis
United Kingdom
Taeniasis
Indonesia, Mexico,
Taiwan
Tetanus
Bangladesh, Bhutan,
Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Korea, Maldives,
Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand
Toxic shock syndrome
<Worldwide>
Toxocariasis
Canary Islands,
Mexico, Turkey
Toxoplasmosis
Korea, United States
Trachoma
Nepal
Trypanosomiasis - American
Belize, Colombia,
Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru,
Venezuela
Tungiasis
Mexico
Tularemia
Japan, Norway,
Russia, Sweden
Typhus
Burundi
Visceral leishmaniasis
Portugal
West Nile fever
Central African
Republic, Madagascar
Yersiniosis
United States
High-impact global diseases:
AIDS
All countries,
<Worldwide>
Cholera
Australia, Burundi,
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad,
Costa Rica, France, Guinea Bissau, Hong Kong,
Hungary, India, Iraq, Japan, Russia, Somalia,
Tanzania, United Kingdom, Venezuela,
<Worldwide>
Malaria
Australia, Brazil,
Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican
Republic,
Germany, Ghana, Haiti, Mexico, Saudi Arabia,
South
Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom,
United States
Tuberculosis
Bangladesh, Bhutan,
Canada, Comoros, Denmark, India,
Indonesia,
Korea, Malawi, Maldives, Mexico, Myanmar,
Nepal,
Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden, Thailand,
United Kingdom, <Worldwide>
Yellow fever
Benin
Therapy
Pharmacological profile: Azithromycin,
Cefpodoxime, Ciprofloxacin, Clarithromycin,
Erythromycin, European tick encephalitis
vaccine,
Levofloxacin, Minocycline, Ofloxacin,
Piperacillin, Piperacillin,
Piperacillin-tazobactam, Praziquantel,
Pristinamycin, Ritonavir, Sparfloxacin,
Sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim
Susceptibility database Bartonella
henselae and
Bartonella quintana, Flavobacterium indologenes,
Neisseria weaveri, Pasteurella canis,
Porphyromonas gingivalis, Porphyromonas
salivosa,
Weeksella zoohelcum
Interactions database
Clozepine, Donepezil,
Lidocaine, Loratadine, Fentanyl, Tramadol
Microbiology
New taxa added
Actinobaculum schaalii,
Actinomyces europaeus, Actinomyces graevenitzii,
Bartonella claridgeiae, Corynebacterium imitans,
Desulfovibrio spp, Peptostreptococcus harei,
Peptostreptococcus ivorii, Peptostreptococcus
octavius, Treponema amylovorum, Tsukamurella
tyrinosolvens
Name changed
Bacteroides corporis and
Mitsuokella dentalis incorporated into
Prevotella
dentalis; Burkholderia pickettii to Ralstonia
pickettii; CDC Coryneform group A-3 to
Cellulomonas hominis; CDC Coryneform group A-4
to
Microbacterium arborescens and Microbacterium
imperiale; CDC Enteric group 59 to Buttiauxella
noackiae; CDC group Vb-3 to Pseudomonas
stutzeri-like; Enterobacter taylorae to
Enterobacter cancerogenus; Klebsiella
ozaenae, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Klebsiella
rhinoscleromatis to subspecies of Klebsiella
pneumoniae; Leuconostoc paramesenteroides to
Weissella paramesenteroides; Oerskovia turbata
to
Callatomonas turbata; Pityrosporum
pachydermatis
to Malassezia pachydermatis, Streptococcus
adjacens to Abiotrophia adiacens; Streptococcus
defectivus to Abiotrophia defectiva;
Salmonella
subgroup 5 to Salmonella bongori; Salmonella
subgroup 3a to Salmonella choleraesuis ssp.
arizonae; Salmonella subgroup 1 incorporated
into
Salmonella choleraesuis ssp. choleraesuis;
Salmonella subgroup 3b to Salmonella
choleraesuis
ssp. diarizonae; Salmonella subgroup 4 to
Salmonella choleraesuis ssp. houtenae;
Salmonella
subgroup 3 to Salmonella choleraesuis ssp.
salmae
Xenorhabdus luminescens to Photorhabdus
luminescens
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