infectious disease
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- Recent outbreaks of chikungunya fever in the Indian Ocean and India have raised concern about the epidemic potential of this previously obscure arbovirus.
- Rabies virus found worldwide and prevalent throughout the United States continues to be a public health concern.
- Rubella is a vaccine-preventable contagious disease causing an estimated 100,000 children to be born with congenital rubella syndrome each year globally.
- Infectious diseases are important causes of mortality and morbidity in children
- Yellow fever (YF) is arguably one of the most notorious infectious diseases in the world.
- Dengue virus (DENV), an arbovirus, strongly activates mast cells (MCs), which are key immune cells for pathogen immune surveillance.
- Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection can be complicated by cholestatic jaundice and hemolytic anemia, although both complications rarely occur simultaneously.
- Although it is a vaccine-preventable disease, tetanus is frequently found in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Arboviral diseases are a global growing problem due to climate change, urbanization, population density, global transportation.
- Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a positive sense, single stranded RNA virus in the genus Alphavirus, and the etiologic agent of epidemics of severe arthralgia in Africa, Asia, Europe and, most recently, the Americas.
- Invasive aspergillosis(IA)is a serious opportunistic infectious disease with an extremely high mortality,happening mostly in severely immunocompromised patients.
- JC virus, JCV, is a human neurotropic polyomavirus whose replication in glial cells causes the fatal demyelinating disease progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML).
- Chronic Lyme disease (LD) is a matter of debate worldwide and has emerged as a social problem.
- Cholera is still a serious menace, and although it can be cured by chemotherapy and intravenous fluid replacement, such treatment is impracticable in places where most epidemics occur.