GIDEON (link removed) (Global Infectious Disease and Epidemiology Network) Online is a global infectious disease knowledge management tool. It uses an interactive application to provide diagnosis and reference in the fields of tropical and infectious diseases, epidemiology, microbiology and antimicrobial chemotherapy.

1. Diagnosis component - generates a ranked differential diagnosis or simulation of a clinical problem.
2. Epidemiology component - presents the epidemiology of individual diseases transmitted, including their status in any given country, or worldwide.
3. Therapy component - includes information on how drugs and vaccines are used, their side effects, trade names, testing standards.
4. Microbiology component - identifies any bacterium or yeast, or contrasts two or more species.

GIDEON is updated on a weekly basis. Resources used include all relevant citations appearing in MEDLINE searches, periodic publications of the World Health Organization, abstracts of major international meetings, user feedback, and latest additions from the following (link removed):
   National Health Ministry Reports
   Technical Reports of the World Health Organization
   Texts and Monographs
   Journals and Periodicals
Additional information is available from the GIDEON tutorial (link removed).

Access is available on-campus to all LSUHSC domain computers. Access is also available off-campus via the WAM (link removed) (Web Access Management) portion of the Libraries' catalog (link removed). To use the WAM system, patrons must be registered with the Library and have an LSUHSC barcode. For assistance with registering with the Libraries or with obtaining a barcode, please contact the Circulation Desk at either the Isché Library (504-568-6100) or the Dental Library (504-619-8550). Access is provided through the SCAMeL Consortia.

For more information about GIDEON, please contact the Reference (link removed) Department at the Isché Library (504) 568-6102 / (504) 568-8339, or at the Dental (link removed) Library (504) 619-8507, or stop by the library for a quick demonstration.