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Geography of Infectious Diseases

• The geography of many infections is dynamic. • Biological characteristics of organisms, human and animal host factors, and bioclimatic factors influence where diseases occur. • Diseases vary in their potential to be moved from one area to another. Those with a fixed focal distribution often requir...

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Autor principal: Wilson, Mary Elizabeth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7150158/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-7020-6285-8.00106-4
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description • The geography of many infections is dynamic. • Biological characteristics of organisms, human and animal host factors, and bioclimatic factors influence where diseases occur. • Diseases vary in their potential to be moved from one area to another. Those with a fixed focal distribution often require a specific arthropod vector or intermediate host – or require special geoclimatic conditions. • The speed, volume and reach of travel and migration and trade have influenced the geography of infectious diseases and facilitate rapid changes in distributions. • The burden from diseases with a global distribution varies greatly from one population to another and is influenced by socioeconomic, demographic, bioclimatic, environmental, host genetics and other factors. • The urban population growth in tropical low- and middle-income regions places large, dense human populations with limited resources in geographic sites with high biodiversity and risk for many infections. • Alternative or unusual routes of transmission (e.g. organ or tissue transplantation) can lead to appearance of diseases outside of usual distributions.
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spelling pubmed-71501582020-04-13 Geography of Infectious Diseases Wilson, Mary Elizabeth Infectious Diseases Article • The geography of many infections is dynamic. • Biological characteristics of organisms, human and animal host factors, and bioclimatic factors influence where diseases occur. • Diseases vary in their potential to be moved from one area to another. Those with a fixed focal distribution often require a specific arthropod vector or intermediate host – or require special geoclimatic conditions. • The speed, volume and reach of travel and migration and trade have influenced the geography of infectious diseases and facilitate rapid changes in distributions. • The burden from diseases with a global distribution varies greatly from one population to another and is influenced by socioeconomic, demographic, bioclimatic, environmental, host genetics and other factors. • The urban population growth in tropical low- and middle-income regions places large, dense human populations with limited resources in geographic sites with high biodiversity and risk for many infections. • Alternative or unusual routes of transmission (e.g. organ or tissue transplantation) can lead to appearance of diseases outside of usual distributions. 2017 2016-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7150158/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-7020-6285-8.00106-4 Text en Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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