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| Introduction | |
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| Elements of Communicable Diseases | |
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| What Are Communicable Diseases? | |
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| The Agent | |
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| Transmission | |
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| Host Factors | |
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| The Environment | |
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| Communicable Disease Theory | |
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| Force of Infection | |
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| Epidemic Theory | |
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| Endemicity | |
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| Quantitative Dynamics | |
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| Control Principles and Methods | |
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| Control Principles | |
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| Control Methods - Vaccination | |
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| Environmental Control Methods | |
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| Vector Control | |
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| Treatment and Mass Drug Administration | |
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| Other Control Methods | |
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| Control Strategy and Organization | |
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| Investigation of an Outbreak | |
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| Surveillance | |
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| Control and Eradication | |
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| Campaigns and Integrated Health Care | |
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| Control Organization | |
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| Social Factors in Control Programmes | |
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| Notification and Health Regulations | |
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| International Health Regulations | |
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| National Health Regulations | |
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| Special Surveillance | |
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| Vaccination Requirements | |
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| Classification of Communicable Diseases | |
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| Diseases of Poor Hygiene | |
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| Scabies | |
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| Lice | |
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| Superficial Fungal Infections (Dermatophytosis) | |
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| Tropical Ulcers | |
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| Yaws | |
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| Pinta | |
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| Endemic Syphilis | |
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| Trachoma | |
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| Epidemic Haemorrhagic Conjunctivitis | |
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| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | |
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| Other Infections | |
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| Faecal-Oral Diseases | |
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| Gastroenteritis | |
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| Rotavirus Infection | |
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| Cryptosporidiosis | |
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| Cholera | |
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| Bacillary Dysentry (Shigellosis) | |
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| Giardia | |
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| Amoebiasis | |
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| Typhoid | |
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| Hepatitis A (HAV) | |
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| Hepatitis E (HEV) | |
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| Poliomyelitis (Polio) | |
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| Enterobius (Pinworm) | |
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| Food-borne Diseases | |
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| Food Poisoning | |
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| Campylobacter Enteritis | |
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| The Intestinal Fluke (Fasciolopsis) | |
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| The Sheep Liver Fluke (Fasciola hepatica) | |
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| The Fish-transmitted Liver Flukes | |
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| The Lung Fluke | |
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| The Fish Tapeworm | |
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| The Beef and Pork Tapeworms | |
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| Trichinosis | |
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| Other Infections Transmitted by Food | |
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| Diseases of Soil Contact | |
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| Trichuris (Whipworm) | |
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| Ascaris | |
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| Hookworms | |
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| Strongyloides | |
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| Tetanus | |
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| Diseases of Water Contact | |
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| Schistosomiasis | |
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| Guinea Worm | |
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| Buruli Ulcer | |
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| Skin Infections | |
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| Chickenpox/Shingles (Varicella) | |
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| Measles | |
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| Rubella | |
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| Mumps | |
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| Streptococcal Skin Infections | |
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| Leprosy | |
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| Respiratory Diseases and Other Airborne-transmitted Infections | |
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| Tuberculosis | |
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| Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs) | |
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| Influenza | |
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| Whooping Cough (Pertussis) | |
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| Diphtheria | |
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| Meningococcal Meningitis | |
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| Haemophilus influenzae (Meningitis and Pneumonia) | |
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| Pneumococcal Disease | |
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| Otitis Media | |
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| Acute Rheumatic Fever | |
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| Diseases Transmitted via Body Fluids | |
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| Venereal Syphilis | |
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| Gonorrhoea | |
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| Chlamydia | |
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| Trichomonas and Non-gonococcal Urethritis | |
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| Lymphogranuloma Venereum | |
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| Granuloma Inguinale (Donovanosis) | |
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| Chancroid | |
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| Genital Herpes | |
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| Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) | |
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| Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) | |
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| Hepatitis B (HBV) | |
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| Hepatitis C (HCV) | |
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| Hepatitis Delta (HDV) | |
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| Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever | |
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| Marburg Disease/Haemorrhagic Fever | |
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| Lassa and Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fevers | |
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| Insect-borne Diseases | |
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| Mosquito-borne Diseases | |
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| Arboviruses | |
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| Japanese Encephalitis (JE) | |
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| Dengue | |
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| Yellow Fever | |
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| Malaria | |
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| Lymphatic Filariasis | |
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| Onchocerciasis | |
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| Loiasis | |
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| African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness) | |
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| American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas' Disease) | |
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| Leishmaniasis | |
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| Ectoparasite Zoonoses | |
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| Plague | |
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| Typhus | |
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| Louse-borne Relapsing Fever | |
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| Tick-borne Relapsing Fever | |
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| Diseases Transmitted Hard Ticks | |
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| Tick Typhus/Fever | |
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| Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever | |
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| Lyme Disease (Borreliosis) | |
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| Tick-borne Encephalitis | |
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| Arboviruses | |
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| Domestic and Synanthropic Zoonoses | |
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| Rabies | |
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| Hydatid Disease | |
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| Toxocariasis | |
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| Larva Migrans | |
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| Toxoplasmosis | |
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| Brucellosis | |
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| Anthrax | |
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| Leptospirosis | |
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| Lassa Fever | |
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| Pregnancy and Infection | |
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| Before Pregnancy | |
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| During Pregnancy | |
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| Post-partum | |
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| New and Emerging Diseases | |
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| The Animal Connection | |
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| Avian Influenza and its Implications | |
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| Other Animal-related Emerging Infections | |
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| Arboviruses | |
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| Antimicrobial Resistance | |
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| Bioterrorism | |
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| List of Communicable Diseases | |
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| Index | |