About the Authors

Where do the facts come from?

The facts in IDdx were discovered and published by thousands of scientists with most of the work being done in the last 150 years. These facts include things like incubation periods, findings, and epidemiological factors. IDdx currently uses fourteen main sources of these facts:
  1. ABX Guide  Bartlett JG, Auwaerter PG, Pham PA, Hsu AJ (eds). Johns Hopkins POC-IT ABX Guide. 2000-2014 Unbound Medicine.
  2. CCDM  Heymann DL (ed). Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, 20th Ed. Washington, DC: APHA, 2015.
  3. CDC Travel  CDC Health Information for International Travel 2014. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
  4. Cecil  Goldman L, Schafer AI (eds). Cecil Medicine, 24th Ed. Philadelphia: Elsevier, 2012.
  5. Cohen J, Opal SM, Powderly WG (eds). Infectious Diseases, 3rd Ed. Philadelphia: Elsevier, 2010
  6. Gorbach  Falagas ME, Mylonakis E (eds). Gorbach’s 5-Minute Infectious Diseases Consult, 2nd Ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2012.
  7. Guerrant  RL, Walker DH, Weller PF (eds). Tropical Infectious Diseases, 3rd Ed. Philadelphia: Elsevier, 2011.
  8. Harrison  Braunwald E et al. Harrison’s Manual of Medicine, 18th Ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2013.
  9. Harrison ID  Kasper DL, Fauci AS (eds). Harrison’s Infectious Diseases, 2nd Ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2013.
  10. ID  Gorbach SL. Bartlett JG, Blacklow NR. (eds). Infectious Diseases, 3rd Ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004.
  11. Merck Manual  Porter RS, Kaplan JL (eds). The Merck Manual, 19th Ed. Merck & Co., Inc., 2011.
  12. 5MCC  Domino FJ (ed). 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2015. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer, 2014.
  13. PPID  Bennett JE, Dolin R, Blaser MJ (eds). Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 8th Ed. Philadelphia: Elsevier, 2015.
  14. Wallach  Williamson MA, Snyder LM (eds). Wallach’s Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests, 10th Ed. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer, 2015.
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Who collected and indexed the facts and put them into a relational database?

IDdx is a Microsoft Access relational database of infectious disease facts that was created by Jay A. Brown, MD, MPH, a graduate of Indiana University School of Medicine and the University of Washington School of Public Health. Jay completed residency training in Family Practice and Occupational Medicine. He is Board Certified in Occupational Medicine and was formerly Board Certified in Family Practice. Dr. Brown has over twenty years of clinical experience working in family practice, urgent care, and occupational medicine clinics. He has been mapping medical knowledge domains since 1991 with the goal of systematically and accurately indexing the facts into continously improved decision-support tools. His other website is at  The software for the iPhone, iPad, and Android apps was developed by Atmosphere Apps.