LibGuides: Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases: Home

Introduction

This guide is designed to help you locate key resources in geographic medicine and infectious disease that are owned by Tufts University. The databases, e-books, e-journals and point-of-care resources presented in this guide require access to Tufts e-resources.

If you have questions regarding access to these resources, please see our Access & Registration page or contact the library (617-636-6706; hhsl@tufts.edu).

Resources to Get You Started

Cochrane Library
"The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision making. Cochrane Reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions."

Dynamed Plus
A reference tool created by physicians for use primarily at the 'point-of-care', DynaMed is updated daily and monitors the content of over 500 medical journals and systematic-review databases. Its references link to some free articles but otherwise to PubMed records. To access the full text of our licensed articles, open another browser window, login to our customized PubMed, and click on the blue icon for Tufts Electronic Holdings. DynaMed is also available for mobile devices.

Global Health
International database providing comprehensive coverage of the core public health literature, particularly in the areas of tropical medicine, human nutrition, infectious diseases, vector control, food safety and epidemiology.
Health Map
Delivers real-time intelligence on a broad range of emerging infectious diseases. Through an automated process, updating 24/7/365, the system monitors, organizes, integrates, filters, visualizes and disseminates online information about emerging diseases in nine languages, facilitating early detection of global public health threats.
Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS)
MIDAS is a collaborative network of research scientists who use computational, statistical and mathematical models to understand infectious disease dynamics and thereby assist the nation to prepare for, detect and respond to infectious disease threats.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: MMWR
Produced by the U.S.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Contains data on specific diseases as reported by state and territorial health departments and reports on infectious and chronic diseases, environmental hazards, natural or human-generated disasters, occupational diseases and injuries, and intentional and unintentional injuries. Also included are reports on topics of international interest and notices of events of interest to the public health community.
PubMed@Tufts
Provides access to NCBI's databases including MEDLINE with links out to articles licensed by Tufts.
Red book: 2015 report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases
"The Red Book," is considered the "Bible" of pediatric infectious diseases. In addition to providing an updated and exhaustive summary of the clinical manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnostic tests, treatment, isolation, and control measures for >200 pediatric infectious diseases, this reference discusses a number of related topics, including management. "