Infectious Disease Terms

A type of immune cell that can attack foreign cells, cancer cells, and cells infected with a virus.

A substance being studied in the treatment of diarrhea caused by infection with Clostridium difficile (a type of bacteria that can grow without oxygen) in cancer patients.

Tinidazole is an antiprotozoal drug for infections such as giardiasis and trichomoniasis, with an investigational role in certain stomach infections still being studied.

A drug used with another drug, ritonavir, to treat patients who are infected with HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) and have been treated with other anti-HIV drugs.

Disease caused by the spread of bacteria and their toxins in the bloodstream.

A poison made by certain bacteria, plants, or animals, including insects.

Whooping cough spreads easily and causes severe, prolonged coughing fits, posing the greatest danger to infants and young children.

Named for the jaundice of its severe phase, though most infections never reach that stage and some produce no illness at all.

A drug used to prevent and to treat influenza virus infections.

Zidovudine, known as AZT, was the first antiretroviral drug approved to treat HIV infection by blocking viral replication.