Emerging Infectious Disease by Industrialization and Technology.
- Author:
Jin Hong YOO
1
Author Information
1. Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Catholic University of Korea, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Review
- Keywords:
Industrialization;
Technology;
Infection
- MeSH:
Campylobacter;
Communicable Diseases;
Communicable Diseases, Emerging*;
Cyclospora;
Escherichia coli O157;
Immunocompromised Host;
Opportunistic Infections;
Salmonella
- From:Korean Journal of Infectious Diseases
1999;31(1):65-78
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
Nowadays, industrialization caused a new sort of infectious diseases which had not been noticed before. Most of them can be included into category of food-borne zoonosis, for example, Salmonella, Escherichia coli O157: H7, Campylobacter, Cyclospora cayetanensis, and new variant creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease (nvCJD). Development of diagnostic technology revealed the causative pathogen of many diseases which used to be regarded as non-infectious. The management of opportunistic infections in the increasing population of immunocompromised hosts accompanied with the progress in transplantation became a new challenge to the clinical field.
