Infectious Diseases of China

Infectious Diseases of China is one in a series of GIDEON ebooks which summarize the status of individual infectious diseases, in every country of the world. Data are based on the GIDEON web application (www.gideononline.com) which relies on standard text books, peer-review journals, Health Ministry reports and ProMED, supplemented by an ongoing search of the medical literature.

Chapters are arranged alphabetically, by disease name. Each chapter is divided into four sections:

1. Descriptive epidemiology
2. Summary of clinical features
3. Status of the disease in China
4. References

There are 347 generic infectious diseases in the world today. 246 of these are endemic, or potentially endemic, to China. A number of other diseases are not relevant to China and have not been included in this book.

China disease notes include separate sections on Hong Kong and Macao.

In addition to endemic diseases, all published data regarding imported diseases and infection among expatriates from China are included.