CKG is a self-limiting
re-emerging infection. Unlike most viral infections, cutaneous manifestations of CKG are not limited to just maculopapular rash; rather there is a wide spectrum of cutaneous lesions.
Leptospirosis: a
re-emerging infection. Malaysian J Pathol 2011; 33(1): 1-5.
'One Health Initiative' is rightly conceptualized with the aim of early detection of emerging and
re-emerging infection and also offer potential means for antimicrobial resistance.
ID specialists are often called upon to give expert advice to committees, ranging from infection prevention and control (IPC) and AMS committees in hospitals, to provincial and national committees making important policy decisions in areas such as essential medicines, HIV, tuberculosis, antibiotic resistance, vaccines, and emerging and
re-emerging infections such as Crimean-Congo fever and other viral haemorrhagic fevers.
At present, the global community is facing threats of drug resistance, as well as emerging and
re-emerging infections.
We are increasingly reminded of the dramatic role that weather can play in emerging and
re-emerging infections. The catastrophic winds and waves of Hurricane Maria unleashed a "perfect storm" of dozens of cases of Leptospirosis, and another 74 were being investigated in Puerto Rico as of this writing.
Her research interests include virus discovery, emerging and
re-emerging infections, cross-species transmission, viral evolution, and host adaptation.
The workshop -- `Emerging and
Re-Emerging Infections' -- was organised by the Supreme Council of Health focusing on the two dreaded diseases.
"As far as India is concerned, we are faced with the triple burden of communicable diseases, new and
re-emerging infections and the increasing incidence of non-communicable diseases.
They discuss emerging and
re-emerging infections, avian influenza, the development of infectious disease prophylactics and therapeutics, drug resistance, and topics in immunomodulation, autoimmunity, infections and immunity, and the development of vaccines.
The issue of the environmental causes of emerging and
re-emerging infections extends well beyond global climate changes (Morens et al.