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Conclusion
As health care professionals it is important that we are attuned to changing epidemiology of emerging threats —whether respiratory or vector borne. There are many changes in demographics and society that can confer benefit to communities, and pose new challenges to the health care system. Among these is the growing number of infectious that have previously been considered rare to North America, but with c hanges in climate, travel/migration patterns, and adaptability in pathogens as well as their hosts, clinicians in the United States can expect to see diseases that may have been unfamiliar to them in practice, and under...
Source: Disease a Month - March 12, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Robin B. McFee Source Type: research
Selected mosquito-borne illnesses —Chikungunya
In the last several years another mosquito-borne pathogen —Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) has evolved into a significant public health threat, from a relatively unknown and geographically isolated pathogen. It is now found in Africa, Asia, Central- and South-America, with the very real potential for spread into North America.1–9 By December 2013 the first l ocal transmission of Chikungunya virus was reported in the Western Hemisphere; likely first with autochthonous cases in St. Martin.9,10 As of 08/08/14 over 500,000 suspected/laboratory confirmed cases have been reported in the Americas. (Source: Disease a Month)
Source: Disease a Month - March 9, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Robin B. McFee Source Type: research
Introduction to disease vectors
Vectors are living organisms that are capable of transmitting infectious agents – bacteria, viruses, parasites – between humans and animals.1–27 A large proportion of these vectors are arthropods; bloodsucking insects.4–20 They ingest the disease associated pathogens during a blood meal after biting an infected host (animal or human), and subsequently spread it by bitin g another potential host during a blood meal. Although mosquitoes are most associated with disease transmission,4,5,8–10,12–14,16,18 vector borne infections are those transmitted by the bite of a variety of infected arthropods that, in addition ...
Source: Disease a Month - March 8, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Robin B. McFee Source Type: research
Renal complications during pregnancy: In the hypertension spectrum
Elevated blood pressure is one of the most common issues seen in pregnancy affecting approximately 6 –10% of all pregnancies. A history of hypertension during pregnancy is a major risk factor for development of chronic hypertension and doubles the risk for cardiovascular disease. (Source: Disease a Month)
Source: Disease a Month - March 8, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Jerrold B. Leikin Tags: Foreword Source Type: research
Introduction to disease vectors
Vectors are living organisms that are capable of transmitting infectious agents – bacteria, viruses, parasites – between humans and animals.1–27 A large proportion of these vectors are arthropods; bloodsucking insects.4–20 They ingest the disease associated pathogens during a blood meal after biting an infected host (animal or human), and subsequently spread it by bitin g another potential host during a blood meal. Although mosquitoes are most associated with disease transmission,4,5,8–10,12–14,16,18 vector borne infections are those transmitted by the bite of a variety of infected arthropods that, in addition ...
Source: Disease a Month - March 8, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Robin B. McFee Source Type: research
Renal complications during pregnancy: In the hypertension spectrum
Elevated blood pressure is one of the most common issues seen in pregnancy affecting approximately 6 –10% of all pregnancies. A history of hypertension during pregnancy is a major risk factor for development of chronic hypertension and doubles the risk for cardiovascular disease. (Source: Disease a Month)
Source: Disease a Month - March 8, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Jerrold B. Leikin Tags: Foreword Source Type: research
Evaluation and management of Non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding
We present a comprehensive review of literature for the evaluation and management of non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding. (Source: Disease a Month)
Source: Disease a Month - March 7, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Ronald Samuel, Mohammad Bilal, Obada Tayyem, Praveen Guturu Source Type: research
Emerging infectious diseases – overview
Infectious diseases and the pathogens that cause them have posed significant public health threats for millennia, and plagued mankind since the dawn of humanity (Tables 1 and 2).1 –7 Human encroachment into previously unexplored or underdeveloped regions, has led to changes in demographic migrations – human, vector and pathogen.4–6 This alters the ecology, as well as the adaptive ability of vectors, and pathogens and may release heretofore unidentified pathogens; all th ese contribute to a wider range of threat, thus posing potentially greater numbers of illness than previously reported. (Source: Disease a Month)
Source: Disease a Month - March 7, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Robin B. McFee Source Type: research
Tick vectors and tick borne illnesses overview
Ticks (Ixodes), are arthropods,1 –7 and like other arbovectors, are also susceptible to climate,7–18 and are ubiquitous worldwide. Temperature can alter developmental cycle, egg production, population density and distribution.12,13 Climate change is noted to result in distribution changes in Europe, where, for example, the Ioxe des ricinus tick is now found in higher altitudes of the Czech Republic than previously noted. (Source: Disease a Month)
Source: Disease a Month - March 7, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Robin B. McFee Source Type: research
Evaluation and management of variceal bleeding
Acute variceal bleeding is one of the most fatal complications of cirrhosis and is responsible for about one-third of cirrhosis-related deaths. Therefore, every effort should be made to emergently resuscitate the patients, start pharmacotherapy as soon as possible and do endoscopic therapy in a timely manner. Despite the recent advances in treatment, mortality rate is still high. We provide a comprehensive review of evaluation and management of variceal bleeding. (Source: Disease a Month)
Source: Disease a Month - March 7, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Obada Tayyem, Mohammad Bilal, Ronald Samuel, Sheharyar K. Merwat Source Type: research
