Emerging infectious agents

Christian Chidiac (1, 2) , Tristan Ferry (1, 2)

1 StaPath - Pathogénie des Staphylocoques – Staphylococcal Pathogenesis
2 Service de Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales [Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse - HCL]

Emergence of many emerging or re-emerging infectious diseases have occurred over the past decade, some of which are major public threat. SARS, MERS-CoV, highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1), Ebola virus disease have raised concerns because of their virulence, their mortality, and/or their modality of transmission, or their impact on maternofoetal transmission (Zika virus). The witness of these emergences have conducted health authorities to have policies and plans and to imagine new organizations for health systems in order to identify any case of highly communicable virulent disease for immediate isolation, and adequate management.

Mots clés: Chikungunya Fever; Communicable Diseases; Emerging; Coronavirus Infections; Emerging infectious diseases; Global Health; Hemorrhagic Fever; Ebola; Humans; Influenza A Virus; H5N1 Subtype; Influenza; Human; Maladies infectieuses émergentes; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome; Zika Virus Infection

Domaines: Immunologie; Bactériologie; Virologie

Christian Chidiac, Tristan Ferry. Emerging infectious agents. Transfusion Clinique et Biologique, 2016, 23 (4), pp.253-262. ⟨10.1016/j.tracli.2016.08.007⟩. ⟨hal-01911049⟩