Imported Communicable Diseases

Infectious diseases originating in one geographically delineated ecosystem that are carried (by travel or immigration) to another geographically delineated ecosystem by an infected individual, animal, or disease vector.

Also Known As:

Communicable Diseases, Imported; Imported Diseases, Infectious; Imported Infections; Imported Infectious Diseases; Communicable Disease, Imported; Disease, Imported Communicable; Disease, Imported Infectious; Disease, Infectious Imported; Diseases, Imported Communicable; Diseases, Imported Infectious; Diseases, Infectious Imported; Imported Communicable Disease; Imported Disease, Infectious; Imported Infection; Imported Infectious Disease; Infection, Imported; Infections, Imported; Infectious Disease, Imported; Infectious Diseases, Imported; Infectious Imported Disease; Infectious Imported Diseases

Networked: 26 relevant articles (1 outcomes, 2 trials/studies)

Relationship Network

Disease Context: Research Results

Related Diseases

1.	Scrub Typhus (Typhus, Scrub)
2.	Infections
3.	Human Influenza (Influenza)
4.	Chikungunya Fever
5.	Cyclosporiasis

Experts

1.	Beissner, Marcus: 2 articles (10/2016 - 01/2016)
2.	Bretzel, Gisela: 2 articles (10/2016 - 01/2016)
3.	Hanus, Ingrid: 2 articles (10/2016 - 01/2016)
4.	Herbinger, Karl-Heinz: 2 articles (10/2016 - 01/2016)
5.	Hoelscher, Michael: 2 articles (10/2016 - 01/2016)
6.	Löscher, Thomas: 2 articles (10/2016 - 01/2016)
7.	Nothdurft, Hans Dieter: 2 articles (10/2016 - 01/2016)
8.	von Sonnenburg, Frank: 2 articles (10/2016 - 01/2016)
9.	He, Jian-Fan: 1 article (01/2021)
10.	Wang, Bi-Xin: 1 article (01/2021)

Drugs and Biologics

Drugs and Important Biological Agents (IBA) related to Imported Communicable Diseases:

1.	VaccinesIBA 06/01/2005 - "High vaccine coverage should be encouraged to provide protection against the possibility of imported infection."
2.	CytokinesIBA 01/01/2020 - "This study underlines the complex mixed cytokine response elicited by scrub typhus and highlights clinical and diagnostic aspects of imported infections with O. "
3.	Tetrahydrofolate Dehydrogenase (Dihydrofolate Reductase)IBA 12/01/2016 - "There are few published reports of mutations in dihydropteroate synthetase (dhps) and dihydrofolate reductase (dhfr) genes in P. falciparum populations in Nigeria, but one previous study has recorded a novel dhps mutation at codon 431 among infections imported to the United Kingdom from Nigeria. "
4.	Dihydropteroate Synthase (Dihydropteroate Synthetase)IBA 12/01/2016 - "There are few published reports of mutations in dihydropteroate synthetase (dhps) and dihydrofolate reductase (dhfr) genes in P. falciparum populations in Nigeria, but one previous study has recorded a novel dhps mutation at codon 431 among infections imported to the United Kingdom from Nigeria. "
5.	Codon (Codons)IBA 12/01/2016 - "There are few published reports of mutations in dihydropteroate synthetase (dhps) and dihydrofolate reductase (dhfr) genes in P. falciparum populations in Nigeria, but one previous study has recorded a novel dhps mutation at codon 431 among infections imported to the United Kingdom from Nigeria. "
6.	DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid)IBA 11/15/2022 - "Genomic DNA was extracted from blood samples (n = 25) of patients in Jiangsu Province, China with imported infections of P. " 11/01/2013 - "With the substantial travel to and from Mafia, the refractory nature of local snails and evidence from DNA barcoding in schistosomes and snails, we conclude that urogenital schistosomiasis is an imported infection."
7.	FluoroquinolonesIBA 03/01/2011 - "Japanese doctors are somewhat unfamiliar with imported infectious diseases, however, the following imported infectious diseases are notable: cholera, which is currently endemic in Haiti and which there is a possibility of it being imported to Japan from endemic areas; typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever, whose causative organisms showing low sensitivity to fluoroquinolones have become predominant; rabies, which exhibits a high mortality; avian influenza H5N1, which has the possibility of changing into a new type of human influenza; chikungunya fever, in which the number of Japanese patients is increasing; and cyclosporiasis, which led to a number of food poisonings in the USA and Canada, and as a growing number of Japanese travel abroad, the number of infected Japanese patients returning from endemic areas will increase. "
8.	Mefloquine (Lariam)FDA LinkGeneric 09/05/1998 - "Considering that the majority of Plasmodium falciparum infections imported into this country are acquired in areas with a high prevalence of chloroquine resistance, mefloquine is generally considered the first-line drug for the treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria. "
9.	TransferasesIBA 01/01/2016 - "Elevated Values of Clinically Relevant Transferases Induced by Imported Infectious Diseases: A Controlled Cross-Sectional Study of 14,559 Diseased German Travelers Returning from the Tropics and Subtropics." 01/01/2016 - "The aim of this controlled cross-sectional study was to assess the clinical validity of elevated values of three clinically relevant transferase enzymes (aspartate transaminase [AST], alanine transaminase [ALT], and gamma-glutamyl transferase [GGT]) induced by imported infectious diseases (IDs) seen among patients consulting the Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical Center of the University of Munich (from 1999 to 2014) after being in the sub-/tropics. "
10.	Illicit Drugs (Recreational Drugs)IBA 11/01/1998 - "Twenty-seven patients had acquired their infection without evidence of use of illicit drugs, mostly as a skin infection imported from subtropical areas (20 patients); 38 isolations were associated with intravenous drug use (IVDU) (skin, 15; respiratory tract, 10; blood, 13). "

Therapies and Procedures

1.	Therapeutics 10/01/2008 - "The chapters summarised include: Contemporary management of acute myocardial infarction; Imported infectious disease emergencies; New therapies in the management of type 2 diabetes; Stress and adrenal insufficiency; Making sense of a 'funny thyroid function test'; Myeloproliferative disorders: management and molecular pathogenesis; Drug allergies; Osteoporosis; Rheumatoid arthritis; Understanding migraine from bench to bedside." 06/22/2012 - "vivax infection imported into Queensland Australia, to determine the rates of relapse, to investigate the use of primaquine therapy, and its efficacy in the prevention of relapse. "
2.	Transplantation 01/01/2008 - "For this purpose, an extensive review of the medical literature focusing on viral, fungal, and parasitic infections that could be transmitted during transplantation from donors who have lived or traveled in countries where these infections are endemic has been performed, with special emphasis on tropical and imported infections. "
3.	Length of Stay 09/01/2011 - "Of the blood specimen, 13 (22.4%) were drawn on the first day of hospital stay, thus, indicating an imported infection. "
4.	Blood Transfusion (Blood Transfusions) 10/01/2014 - "All the cases were imported from other countries including one infected by blood transfusion resulted from imported infection. "