Topics for Microbiology Papers and Presentations

• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
• Anthrax
• Botulism
• Brucellosis
• Chancroid
• Chlamydia trachomatis, genital infections
• Cholera
• Cryptosporidiosis
• Cyclosporiasis
• Diphtheria
• Ehrlichiosis (Anaplasmosis)
• Equine encephalitis virus disease
• Fungal California Fever (Coccidioidomycosis)
• Giardiasis
• Gonorrhea
• Haemophilus influenzae, invasive disease
• Hansen disease (leprosy)
• Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
• Hemolytic uremic syndrome, post-diarrheal
• Hepatitis B
• Influenza-associated pediatric mortality
• Legionellosis
• Listeriosis
• Lyme disease
• Malaria
• Measles
• Meningitis (bacterial)
• MRSA (methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus)
• Mumps
• Pertussis
• Plague
• Poliomyelitis, paralytic
• Powassan virus disease (tick borne)
• Psittacosis (Parrot disease/fever)
• Q Fever
• Rabies
• Rocky Mountain spotted fever
• Rubella
• Salmonellosis
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-associated Coronavirus (SARS-CoV) disease
• Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC)
• Shigellosis
• Smallpox
• Streptococcus pneumoniae, drug resistant, invasive disease
• Syphilis
• Tetanus
• Toxic-shock syndrome (Streptococcal)
• Trichinellosis (Trichinosis)
• Tuberculosis
• Tularemia (Rabbit fever / deer fly fever)
• Typhoid fever
• Vancomycin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA)
• Varicella
• West Nile virus disease
• Yellow fever