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Communicable Diseases, Emerging

MedGen UID:
163718
•Concept ID:
C0872315
•
Disease or Syndrome
Synonyms: Communicable Disease, Emerging; Disease, Emerging Communicable; Disease, Emerging Infectious; Diseases, Emerging Communicable; Diseases, Emerging Infectious; Emerging Communicable Disease; Emerging Communicable Diseases; Emerging Infectious Disease; Emerging Infectious Diseases; Infectious Disease, Emerging; Infectious Diseases, Emerging

Definition

Infectious diseases that are novel in their outbreak ranges (geographic and host) or transmission mode. [from MeSH]

Term Hierarchy

CClinical test,  RResearch test,  OOMIM,  GGeneReviews,  VClinVar  
  • CROGVCommunicable Diseases, Emerging

Professional guidelines

PubMed

Parechovirus Genotype 3 Outbreak Among Young Infants in Portugal.
Linhares MI, Brett A, Correia L, Pereira H, Correia C, Oleastro M, De Sousa R, Rodrigues F
Acta Med Port 2021 Oct 1;34(10):664-668. Epub 2021 Mar 15 doi: 10.20344/amp.15032. PMID: 33725476
Management of a Lassa fever outbreak, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, 2016.
Ehlkes L, George M, Samosny G, Burckhardt F, Vogt M, Bent S, Jahn K, Zanger P
Euro Surveill 2017 Sep;22(39) doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.39.16-00728. PMID: 29019309Free PMC Article

Recent clinical studies

Etiology

One Health, emerging infectious diseases and wildlife: two decades of progress?
Cunningham AA, Daszak P, Wood JLN
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2017 Jul 19;372(1725) doi: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0167. PMID: 28584175Free PMC Article
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria-Overview.
Koh WJ
Microbiol Spectr 2017 Jan;5(1) doi: 10.1128/microbiolspec.TNMI7-0024-2016. PMID: 28128073
Global Epidemiology of Campylobacter Infection.
Kaakoush NO, Castaño-Rodríguez N, Mitchell HM, Man SM
Clin Microbiol Rev 2015 Jul;28(3):687-720. doi: 10.1128/CMR.00006-15. PMID: 26062576Free PMC Article
Epidemiology and clinical manifestations of mucormycosis.
Petrikkos G, Skiada A, Lortholary O, Roilides E, Walsh TJ, Kontoyiannis DP
Clin Infect Dis 2012 Feb;54 Suppl 1:S23-34. doi: 10.1093/cid/cir866. PMID: 22247442
Global trends in emerging infectious diseases.
Jones KE, Patel NG, Levy MA, Storeygard A, Balk D, Gittleman JL, Daszak P
Nature 2008 Feb 21;451(7181):990-3. doi: 10.1038/nature06536. PMID: 18288193Free PMC Article

Diagnosis

Emerging Infectious Diseases.
McArthur DB
Nurs Clin North Am 2019 Jun;54(2):297-311. Epub 2019 Mar 27 doi: 10.1016/j.cnur.2019.02.006. PMID: 31027668Free PMC Article
Oropouche Fever: A Review.
Sakkas H, Bozidis P, Franks A, Papadopoulou C
Viruses 2018 Apr 4;10(4) doi: 10.3390/v10040175. PMID: 29617280Free PMC Article
Emerging and Neglected Infectious Diseases: Insights, Advances, and Challenges.
Nii-Trebi NI
Biomed Res Int 2017;2017:5245021. Epub 2017 Feb 13 doi: 10.1155/2017/5245021. PMID: 28286767Free PMC Article
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria-Overview.
Koh WJ
Microbiol Spectr 2017 Jan;5(1) doi: 10.1128/microbiolspec.TNMI7-0024-2016. PMID: 28128073
Human monkeypox.
McCollum AM, Damon IK
Clin Infect Dis 2014 Jan;58(2):260-7. Epub 2013 Oct 24 doi: 10.1093/cid/cit703. PMID: 24158414

Therapy

Antivirals with common targets against highly pathogenic viruses.
Lu L, Su S, Yang H, Jiang S
Cell 2021 Mar 18;184(6):1604-1620. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.02.013. PMID: 33740455
Human babesiosis.
Krause PJ
Int J Parasitol 2019 Feb;49(2):165-174. Epub 2019 Jan 26 doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2018.11.007. PMID: 30690090
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria-Overview.
Koh WJ
Microbiol Spectr 2017 Jan;5(1) doi: 10.1128/microbiolspec.TNMI7-0024-2016. PMID: 28128073
Epidemiology and clinical manifestations of mucormycosis.
Petrikkos G, Skiada A, Lortholary O, Roilides E, Walsh TJ, Kontoyiannis DP
Clin Infect Dis 2012 Feb;54 Suppl 1:S23-34. doi: 10.1093/cid/cir866. PMID: 22247442
Global trends in emerging infectious diseases.
Jones KE, Patel NG, Levy MA, Storeygard A, Balk D, Gittleman JL, Daszak P
Nature 2008 Feb 21;451(7181):990-3. doi: 10.1038/nature06536. PMID: 18288193Free PMC Article

Prognosis

Oropouche fever, an emergent disease from the Americas.
Romero-Alvarez D, Escobar LE
Microbes Infect 2018 Mar;20(3):135-146. Epub 2017 Dec 14 doi: 10.1016/j.micinf.2017.11.013. PMID: 29247710
Emergence and spread of a human-transmissible multidrug-resistant nontuberculous mycobacterium.
Bryant JM, Grogono DM, Rodriguez-Rincon D, Everall I, Brown KP, Moreno P, Verma D, Hill E, Drijkoningen J, Gilligan P, Esther CR, Noone PG, Giddings O, Bell SC, Thomson R, Wainwright CE, Coulter C, Pandey S, Wood ME, Stockwell RE, Ramsay KA, Sherrard LJ, Kidd TJ, Jabbour N, Johnson GR, Knibbs LD, Morawska L, Sly PD, Jones A, Bilton D, Laurenson I, Ruddy M, Bourke S, Bowler IC, Chapman SJ, Clayton A, Cullen M, Daniels T, Dempsey O, Denton M, Desai M, Drew RJ, Edenborough F, Evans J, Folb J, Humphrey H, Isalska B, Jensen-Fangel S, Jönsson B, Jones AM, Katzenstein TL, Lillebaek T, MacGregor G, Mayell S, Millar M, Modha D, Nash EF, O'Brien C, O'Brien D, Ohri C, Pao CS, Peckham D, Perrin F, Perry A, Pressler T, Prtak L, Qvist T, Robb A, Rodgers H, Schaffer K, Shafi N, van Ingen J, Walshaw M, Watson D, West N, Whitehouse J, Haworth CS, Harris SR, Ordway D, Parkhill J, Floto RA
Science 2016 Nov 11;354(6313):751-757. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf8156. PMID: 27846606Free PMC Article
Global Epidemiology of Campylobacter Infection.
Kaakoush NO, Castaño-Rodríguez N, Mitchell HM, Man SM
Clin Microbiol Rev 2015 Jul;28(3):687-720. doi: 10.1128/CMR.00006-15. PMID: 26062576Free PMC Article
Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome, an emerging tick-borne zoonosis.
Liu Q, He B, Huang SY, Wei F, Zhu XQ
Lancet Infect Dis 2014 Aug;14(8):763-772. Epub 2014 May 15 doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)70718-2. PMID: 24837566
Global trends in emerging infectious diseases.
Jones KE, Patel NG, Levy MA, Storeygard A, Balk D, Gittleman JL, Daszak P
Nature 2008 Feb 21;451(7181):990-3. doi: 10.1038/nature06536. PMID: 18288193Free PMC Article

Clinical prediction guides

Crowdsourced predictions for emerging infectious diseases.
The Lancet Digital Health
Lancet Digit Health 2022 Aug;4(8):e566. Epub 2022 Jul 7 doi: 10.1016/S2589-7500(22)00131-5. PMID: 35811295Free PMC Article
Stepwise pathogenic evolution of Mycobacterium abscessus.
Bryant JM, Brown KP, Burbaud S, Everall I, Belardinelli JM, Rodriguez-Rincon D, Grogono DM, Peterson CM, Verma D, Evans IE, Ruis C, Weimann A, Arora D, Malhotra S, Bannerman B, Passemar C, Templeton K, MacGregor G, Jiwa K, Fisher AJ, Blundell TL, Ordway DJ, Jackson M, Parkhill J, Floto RA
Science 2021 Apr 30;372(6541) doi: 10.1126/science.abb8699. PMID: 33926925Free PMC Article
Introduction: One health and emerging infectious diseases.
Guarner J
Semin Diagn Pathol 2019 May;36(3):143-145. Epub 2019 Apr 16 doi: 10.1053/j.semdp.2019.04.004. PMID: 31005358
Human babesiosis.
Rożej-Bielicka W, Stypułkowska-Misiurewicz H, Gołąb E
Przegl Epidemiol 2015;69(3):489-94, 605-8. PMID: 26519845
How great is the threat of chikungunya virus?
Waggoner JJ, Pinsky BA
Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther 2015 Mar;13(3):291-3. Epub 2014 Dec 24 doi: 10.1586/14787210.2015.995634. PMID: 25537007Free PMC Article

Recent systematic reviews

Molecular Epidemiology of Underreported Emerging Zoonotic Pathogen Streptococcus suis in Europe.
Brizuela J, Roodsant TJ, Hasnoe Q, van der Putten BCL, Kozakova J, Slotved HC, van der Linden M, de Beer-Schuurman IGA, Sadowy E, Sáez-Nieto JA, Chalker VJ, van der Ark KCH, Schultsz C
Emerg Infect Dis 2024 Mar;30(3):413-422. doi: 10.3201/eid3003.230348. PMID: 38407169Free PMC Article
Emerging zoonotic diseases in Southeast Asia in the period 2011-2022: a systematic literature review.
Nguyen TT, Mai TN, Dang-Xuan S, Nguyen-Viet H, Unger F, Lee HS
Vet Q 2024 Dec;44(1):1-15. Epub 2024 Jan 16 doi: 10.1080/01652176.2023.2300965. PMID: 38229485Free PMC Article
The associations between sedentary behaviour and mental health among adolescents: a systematic review.
Hoare E, Milton K, Foster C, Allender S
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 2016 Oct 8;13(1):108. doi: 10.1186/s12966-016-0432-4. PMID: 27717387Free PMC Article
Systematic review of brucellosis in Kenya: disease frequency in humans and animals and risk factors for human infection.
Njeru J, Wareth G, Melzer F, Henning K, Pletz MW, Heller R, Neubauer H
BMC Public Health 2016 Aug 22;16(1):853. doi: 10.1186/s12889-016-3532-9. PMID: 27549329Free PMC Article
Onchocerciasis caused by Onchocerca lupi: an emerging zoonotic infection. Systematic review.
Grácio AJ, Richter J, Komnenou AT, Grácio MA
Parasitol Res 2015 Jul;114(7):2401-13. Epub 2015 May 20 doi: 10.1007/s00436-015-4535-7. PMID: 25990062

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