Infectious Disease Images on the World Wide Web

Infectious diseases (ID) physicians are often in need of medical images to enhance their teaching, research, and clinical practice. We explored the Internet for Web sites with images that would be useful to ID physicians. A total of 24 sites were included for review. Of these, 10 sites were broad in...

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Published in:Clinical infectious diseases 2004-02, Vol.38 (4), p.547-555, Article 547
Main Authors: Yu, Victor L., Priest, David H., Williams, Stephen J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Communicable Diseases - classification
Communicable Diseases - microbiology
Diagnostic Imaging
Fees
Fungi
Humans
Illustration
Infectious diseases
Information Dissemination
Internet
Medical Illustration
Microscopy
Navigation
Parasites
Physicians
Surfing the Web
Viruses
Website navigation
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Summary:Infectious diseases (ID) physicians are often in need of medical images to enhance their teaching, research, and clinical practice. We explored the Internet for Web sites with images that would be useful to ID physicians. A total of 24 sites were included for review. Of these, 10 sites were broad in their scope and included images of bacteria, parasites, viruses, and/or fungi. In addition, 4 sites reviewed were specific for fungi, 4 sites were specific for viruses, and 6 sites focused on parasites. The number and size of images, copyright restrictions, and fees were noted for all sites. The authors gave each site a subjective navigation and layout score. Features of the sites, including microscopy images, laboratory images, clinical images, clinical vignettes, medical illustrations and/or clip art, medical illustrations of life cycles, slides of educational material, radiographs, and animation or video, were also described. A variety of image resources are available to the ID physician.
ISSN:1058-4838
1537-6591
DOI:10.1086/381267