ArticleCanada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada2017
Emerging infectious diseases: prediction and detection.
Article in Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Abstruse Side of Climate Change, Impact on Malaria: A Systematic Evidence Review Comparing Iran versus Globally.Iranian journal of public health · 2024Review
- Cytometry in High-Containment Laboratories.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024Review
- A social-ecological systems approach to tick bite and tick-borne disease risk management: Exploring collective action in the Occitanie region in southern France.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2023Review
- Stem cell therapy: a novel approach against emerging and re-emerging viral infections with special reference to SARS-CoV-2.Molecular biology reports · 2023Review
- Evidence of Antimicrobial Resistance in Bats and Its Planetary Health Impact for Surveillance of Zoonotic Spillover Events: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Human-Altered Landscapes and Climate to Predict Human Infectious Disease Hotspots.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2022Article
- A One Health strategy for emerging infectious diseases based on the COVID-19 outbreak.Journal of biosafety and biosecurity · 2022Review
- The COVID-19 pandemic in the African continent.BMC medicine · 2022Article
- Inclusion of environmentally themed search terms improves Elastic net regression nowcasts of regional Lyme disease rates.PloS one · 2022Article
- Contemporary Approaches to the Discovery and Development of Broad-Spectrum Natural Product Prototypes for the Control of Coronaviruses.Journal of natural products · 2021Article
- The Global Emergence of Human Babesiosis.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- The knowledge needs for Canadian paediatric emergency physicians in the diagnosis and management of tropical diseases: A national physician survey.Paediatrics & child health · 2021Article
- Viral discovery in the 'realm' of COVID-19.Environmental microbiology reports · 2021Article
- Years of Life Lost Attributable to COVID-19 in High-incidence Countries.Journal of Korean medical science · 2020Article
- Pathogenic viruses: Molecular detection and characterization.Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases · 2020Review
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), including West Nile virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Lyme disease, have had a direct effect within Canada, while many more EIDs such as Zika, chikungunya and Ebola are a threat to Canadians while travelling. Over 75% of EIDs affecting humans are, or were originally, zoonoses (infectious diseases transmitted from animals to humans). There are two main ways by which infectious diseases can emerge: by changes in their geographical ranges and by adaptive emergence, a genetic change in a microorganism that results in it becoming capable of invading a new niche, often by jumping to a new host species such as humans. Diseases can appear to emerge simply because we become capable of detecting and diagnosing them. Management of EID events is a key role of public health globally and a considerable challenge for clinical care. Increasingly, emphasis is being placed on predicting EID occurrence to "get ahead of the curve" - that is, allowing health systems to be poised to respond to them, and public health to be ready to prevent them. Predictive models estimate where and when EIDs may occur and the levels of risk they pose. Evaluation of the internal and external drivers that trigger emergence events is increasingly considered in predicting EID events. Currently, global changes are driving increasing occurrence of EIDs, but our capacity to prevent and deal with them is also increasing. Web-based scanning and analysis methods are increasingly allowing us to detect EID outbreaks, modern genomics and bioinformatics are increasing our ability to identify their genetic and geographical origins, while developments in geomatics and earth observation will enable more real-time tracking of outbreaks. EIDs will, however, remain a key, global public health challenge in a globalized world where demographic, climatic, and other environmental changes are altering the interactions between hosts and pathogen in ways that increase spillover from animals to humans and global spread.
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