Bacterial Diseases

Bacterial Diseases, wide variety of diseases caused by microscopic one-celled organisms called bacteria.

For information on:

• epidemic bacterial diseases, see Cholera; Dysentery; Gonorrhea; Plague; Anthrax; Tuberculosis; Typhoid Fever
• bacterial skin diseases, see Dermatitis; Erysipelas; Leprosy; Yaws; Carbuncle
• other bacterial diseases, see Cystitis; Endocarditis; Legionnaire’s Disease; Lyme Disease; Pneumonia; Meningitis: Cause; Osteomyelitis; Puerperal Fever; Tetanus; Toxemia; Septicemia; Conjunctivitis; Gangrene; Trench Mouth
• children’s bacterial diseases, see Croup; Impetigo
• bacteria and a list of human bacterial diseases, see Bacteria
• inoculation and vaccination against bacterial diseases, see Immunization
• overview of infections, see Infection
• chemical compounds that kill or inhibit the growth of infectious organisms, see Antibiotics
• bacterial diseases affecting mainly animals, see Blackleg; Diseases of Animals: Bacterial Diseases; Glanders; Psittacosis; Actinomycosis; Distemper; Tularemia
• research of bacteria and bacterial diseases, see Bacteriology; Joshua Lederberg; Salvador Edward Luria; Ferdinand Julius Cohn; Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk; Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis; Theobald Smith; Robert Koch; Hans Zinsser; René Jules Dubos; Louis Pasteur
• for a list of other bacterial diseases and sites of infection, see the related articles module on this page