Journal article
Emerging infectious diseases
- Abstract:
- The spectrum of human pathogens and the infectious diseases they cause is continuously changing through evolution, selection and changes in the way human populations interact with their environment and each other. New human pathogens often emerge or re-emerge from an animal reservoir, emphasizing the central role that non-human reservoirs play in human infectious diseases. Pathogens can also re-emerge with new characteristics, such as multidrug resistance, or in different places, such as Ebola virus in West Africa in 2013 and Zika virus in Brazil in 2015, to cause new epidemics. Most human pathogens have a history of evolution in which they first emerge and cause epidemics, become unstably adapted, re-emerge periodically and then – without intervention – eventually become endemic, with the potential for future outbreaks.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1016/j.mpmed.2017.09.002
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Journal:
- Medicine More from this journal
- Volume:
- 45
- Issue:
- 12
- Pages:
- 798-801
- Publication date:
- 2017-10-28
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-09-26
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1357-3039
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pubs:796716
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- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- This is the author accepted manuscript following peer review version of the article. The final version is available online from Elsevier at: 10.1016/j.mpmed.2017.09.002
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