Infectious Diseases profile of Pakistan

About Us

In September 1993, a small group of microbiologists and infectious diseases specialists in Karachi formed The Karachi Infectious Diseases Society which later grew into a nation wide body of microbiologists and ID physician and thus became to be known as THE INFECTIOUS DISEASES SOCIETY OF PAKISTAN (IDSP).  This society was created to disseminate awareness and knowledge within the communities of common infections and their prevention. The society also aimed to update the primary physicians of current modalities in the treatment and management of common infections.
The Infectious Diseases Society of Pakistan (IDSP) is a registered body and represents a spectrum of disciplines including clinicians, non clinicians and basic sciences. The discipline of ‘Infectious Disease’ incorporates:
  • Clinical medicine and therapeutics
  • Microbiology
  • Epidemiology
  • Hospital infection control

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Latest issue of IDJ

July-September 2011, Volume 20 : Issue 03

  • Biosafety Curriculum for Post-Graduate Microbiology Students at a Pathology Institute
  • Pattern of Dengue Fever in Different Weather Conditions of Karachi
  • Clinical Profile and Management of Dengue Fever at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Pakistan
  • Frequency of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Patients with Suspected Skin Lesions
  • Positive Urine Cultures after Renal Transplantation at a Transplant Center in Karachi
  • Medical Students’ and Doctors’ Perception of Fever in Children
  • Cerebral malaria Caused by Plasmodium vivax
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Latest News

November 9th, 2011

Disease Outbreak !!

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