[European migrant crisis and reemergence of infections in Switzerland]

Rev Med Suisse. 2016 Apr 13;12(514):749-53.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Current conflicts in some regions of the world give rise to massive immigration waves. Consequently, some infections that had nearly disappeared in Europe nowadays re-emerge. They are related to the epidemiology of the refugees' origin, but also to the epidemiology of the country crossed during migration. Hygiene conditions, often precarious during the journey, favor their transmission. Thus, cases of louse borne relapsing fever and diphtheria emerge in Europe and in Switzerland since 2074 whereas cutaneous Panton-Valen tine Staphylococcus aureus infection are more commonly observed nowadays.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Bacterial Toxins
  • Borrelia Infections / epidemiology
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging / epidemiology*
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging / transmission*
  • Diphtheria / epidemiology
  • Exotoxins
  • Humans
  • Hygiene
  • Leukocidins
  • Staphylococcal Infections / epidemiology
  • Switzerland / epidemiology
  • Transients and Migrants*

Substances

  • Bacterial Toxins
  • Exotoxins
  • Leukocidins
  • Panton-Valentine leukocidin