Infectious Disease Challenges in Immigrants From Tropical Countries

Infectious disease challenges in immigrants from tropical countries.

BACKGROUND In today's mobile society, international travel and immigration are becoming increasingly more common. This poses an additional challenge to the clinician to expand the differential diagnosis to include diseases endemic to the area of travel. OBSERVATION We present a case of malaria and tuberculosis in a 16-year-old African male immigrant. He had several encounters with the health ...

Progress and Challenges in Infectious Disease Cartography.

Quantitatively mapping the spatial distributions of infectious diseases is key to both investigating their epidemiology and identifying populations at risk of infection. Important advances in data quality and methodologies have allowed for better investigation of disease risk and its association with environmental factors. However, incorporating dynamic human behavioural processes in disease ma...

The infectious disease challenges of our time

Global Challenges of Infectious Disease Epidemiology

As we have seen in the last chapter, infectious and parasitic diseases are major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, particularly in developing countries. Approximately 26% of global deaths and 26% of global burden of disease were attributed to infectious diseases in 2001 (Lopez et al. 2006; see Chapter 1). One in two deaths that are mostly preventable occurs in developing countries (K...

The infectious disease challenges of our time

Infectious diseases form one of the greatest global challenges in medicine in our time. Ever since the famous, wrong prediction of the Surgeon General of the United States, William H. Stewart, in 1969: “We can close the books on infectious diseases,” infectious diseases have been on the rise. A large number of new infectious diseases emerged: major threats to the world like AIDS and SARS, but a...