Emerging infections—an increasingly important topic: review by the Emerging Infections Task Force

Petersen, Eskild; Petrosillo, Nicola; Koopmans, Marion; Beeching, Nicholas J.; Di, Antonino; Gkrania‐Klotsas, Effrossyni; Kantele, Anu; Kohlmann, R.; Lim, Poh Lian; Markotić, Alemka; López‐Vélez, Rogelio; Poirel, Laurent; Rossen, John W. A.; Stienstra, Ymkje; Storgaard, Merete

doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2017.10.035

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“…The author discusses the emerging fungal species Candida auris causing outbreaks in health care facilities, which is associated with high mortality in patients with underlying comorbidities. 2,20…”

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“…Simply put, they may be new infections resulting from changes or evolution of existing organisms, known infections spreading to new geographic areas or populations, previously unrecognized infections appearing in areas undergoing ecologic transformation, or old infections reemerging because of antimicrobial resistance in known agents or breakdowns in public health measures. 1,2 Emerging infections account for at least 15% of all human pathogens according to the 10th International Conference on EID. 3 A major concern is the synergistic communication between emerging diseases and other infectious and noninfectious conditions.…”

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“…Fast forward to 2008 and beyond with the discovery of severe fever with thrombocytopenia virus and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus as well as unusual outbreaks of Zika virus, yellow fever, and Ebola. These EID bring to the forefront the significance of demographic change, global travel and trade, and possible climate change as drivers 2,19. .…”

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Emerging Infectious Diseases

McArthur

2019

Nursing Clinics of North America

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KEYWORDSEmerging infections Zoonotic diseases Vector-borne diseases Candida auris Elizabethkingia anopheles Avian influenza mcr-1 KEY POINTSMost emerging infectious diseases (EID) are caused by zoonotic pathogens.Vector-borne diseases are a major public health problem in the United States.Factors contributing to EID include population growth, spread in health care facilities, aging population, global travel, and changing vector habitats related to climate change.

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Section: Vector-borne Emerging Infectious Diseasesmentioning

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Emerging Infectious Diseases

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2019

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“…The transformation of the Earth's biomass has greatly conditioned the modes of transmission of pathogens, from showing only animal-to-animal transmission gradually evolving to being only human-to-human transmission (13). This transformation is hypothesized to be caused by repeated short introductions of these agents in humans, initially without the ability to sustain human-to-human transmission; for HIV, this "viral chatter" has been estimated to be consistent in at least 10 entries (14).…”

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Emerging infections and future threats

Petrosillo¹

2019

Erciyes Med J

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Emerging infections represent a concern especially when their increase is rapid and their mortality is high. They can be caused by previously undetected or unknown pathogens, by known agents affecting new geographical sites or new populations, or by re-emerging agents whose incidence of disease had significantly declined in the past. The main causes of emerging infectious disease (EID) spread include crowding; mobility (tourism, migration, asylum seekers, and refugees); centralization of food production and supply and new food vehicles; war, famine, and displacement; and change in vector distribution and susceptibility. Another important issue regarding EIDs is the source of pathogens, with 60.3% of cases from a non-human animal origin (zoonotic pathogens). If emerging viral infections represent a concern mainly in underdeveloped areas of the world, the emergence of antimicrobial resistance is a growing concern worldwide especially in developed and high-income countries, where misuse and overuse of antibiotics among humans and in the veterinary setting, including animal feeding, artificially created the selection of resistant strains. Future threats include not only diseases caused by viral agents, such as the case of Ebola virus disease periodical re-emergence, but also infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. It is estimated that in 2050, deaths due to antimicrobial-resistant infections will be higher than those due to cancer.

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“…From a policy point of view, we must conclude that the integration of 'different' disciplines (virology, bacteriology, mycology, immunology, genetics, molecular biology) is essential for a more complete understanding of the role of the virome and its trans-kingdom interactions in the modulation of health and disease status. Emerging infections, and more specifically viral diseases (such as SARS, MERS, avian influenza and Ebola), represent a serious threat to human health because factors influencing the emergence of 'new', and especially zoonotic, human diseases (for example, population growth and geographic expansion, intensification of agriculture and consequent habitat disturbance, the dramatic rise in global travel and trade) are increasingly demonstrated [3]. This implies that the detection of, and response to, global outbreaks of viral diseases should be the object of special attention and recommendations policies should be improved.…”

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