GIDEON is a computer program for diagnosis and reference in the field of tropical and infectious diseases, epidemiology, microbiology and antimicrobial chemo-therapy.

It was designed to diagnose all the worlds’ infectious diseases, based on symptoms, signs, laboratory testing and dermatological profile. GIDEON’s infectious disease network pays special attention to the country of origin. The database incorporates 327 diseases, 205 countries, 806 bacterial taxa and 185 antibacterial agents.

GIDEON is made up of 4 basic modules:

1. Diagnosis: GIDEON’s diagnostic module enables the user to access all epidemiological parameters, clinical hints, diagnostic tests and optimal therapy. It involves data on conditions totally unfamiliar to most physicians outside the involved countries. After specifying the suspected country of disease, acquisition and entering the signs and symptoms of the patient, GIDEON provides a ranked list of differential diagnosis. For each disease on this list the user can retrieve important facts like its clinical and epidemiological profile, its status in the country, etc. By interacting further with GIDEON, the user can explore alternative diagnosis.
   
2. Epidemiological Module: With GIDEON’s Epidemiological Module the user can retrieve a disease’s epidemiological parameters, access the status of any disease in the current country, get a list of the world wide distribution, review the status of the current disease in any country and the possibility to access a list of alternative names for a disease. The user can select a pathogen group, reservoir, vector, vehicle and/or country and list all of the diseases that fit these parameters, and he can review the status of global impact diseases like malaria, aids, yellow fever, cholera and tuberculosis.
   
3. Therapy Module: This module provides detailed information about different drug therapies, including susceptibility, toxicity and drug interaction data, not only on familiar antimicrobials, but also on ones rarely used. A list of synonyms includes all commercially available antimicrobials worldwide. Vaccine and Immune Globulin information is available similarly .
   
4. Microbiology Module: For purpose of identification and characterization, the Microbiology Modul provides full laboratory characteristics including biochemical test results and cultural characteristics, for almost 900 organisms. With this Module, the user can identify and compare organisms through an encyclopedia of information all in one integrated source.
   

Evaluation: In a blinded multi center field trail of 495 patients, the correct diagnosis was displayed in over 94% of cases, and was listed first in over 75%.

GIDEON (CD-Rom).

A trial Beta version for download is available; a self-explaining demo version is also available at http://www.cyinfo.com .

GIDEON has been developed in the past 10 years by specialists in infectious diseases, biostatistics and computer sciences at University based Medical schools in the United States and Israel.

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