Deadly infectious diseases such as Ebola: the parachute paradigm

Deadly comrades: war and infectious diseases.

Interdisciplinarity and Infectious Diseases: An Ebola Case Study

1 Odum School of Ecology and Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, 2 DIVERSITAS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, 3 UMI IRD/UPMC 209 UMMISCO, Bondy, France, 4 INRA, UR346 Épidémiologie Animale, Saint Genès Champanelle, France, 5 UMR 5290 IRD-CNRS-Université de Montpellier, Centre I...

Bats, emerging infectious diseases, and the rabies paradigm revisited

The significance of bats as sources of emerging infectious diseases has been increasingly appreciated, and new data have been accumulated rapidly during recent years. For some emerging pathogens the bat origin has been confirmed (such as lyssaviruses, henipaviruses, coronaviruses), for other it has been suggested (filoviruses). Several recently identified viruses remain to be 'orphan' but have ...

Psychiatric diseases presenting as infectious diseases.

Although many psychiatric diseases have somatic manifestations, some focus on fears or delusions of infection. When a patient with a psychiatric basis for an apparent infection presents to an infectious disease physician, the physician may find the problem confusing, amusing, and ultimately frustrating until the psychiatric basis for disease is recognized. Some of these psychiatric disorders ca...

Infectious disease as an evolutionary paradigm.

The basic principles of genetics and evolution apply equally to human hosts and to emerging infections, in which foodborne outbreaks play an important and growing role. However, we are dealing with a very complicated coevolutionary process in which infectious agent outcomes range from mutual annihilation to mutual integration and resynthesis of a new species. In our race against microbial evolu...