New Microbes and New Infections
Volume 26, 2018, Pages S96-S99

Mobile populations across the Mediterranean Sea and beyond: travel medicine, mass gathering medicine and homeless health (Review) (Open Access)

Gautret P.* , Pradines B. , Memish Z.A. , Sokhna C. , Parola P.
  • a Aix-Marseille Université, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, France
  • b Aix-Marseille Université, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, France, Unité Parasitologie et Entomologie, Département des Maladies Infectieuses, Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées, France, Centre National de Référence du Paludisme, Institut Hospitalo-universitaire (IHU) Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
  • c Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Alfaisal University & Infectious Diseases Division, Prince Mohamed Bin Abdulaziz Hospital, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • d Aix-Marseille Université, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, France
  • e Aix-Marseille Université, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, France

Abstract

The Méditerranée Infection institute is internationally recognized for its expertise in infectious diseases and tropical medicine, and is one of the most active research centres for infectious diseases in Europe. Surveillance and research addressing infectious diseases in globally mobile populations is one of the strong components of the research conducted at the institute. A significant amount of clinical, microbiologic and epidemiologic works have been conducted in international travellers, pilgrims participating in large international religious gatherings, economic migrants and homeless migrant people over the last decades by our group. Our strong anchoring in several countries around the Mediterranean Sea and beyond, as well as the pivotal role of Marseille in the EuroTravNet and GeoSentinel international networks that monitor travel-associated diseases, reinforce our leading position in the fields of travel and tropical medicine, mass gathering medicine and homeless health. © 2018 The Authors

Author Keywords

Hajj Grand Magal Surveillance Homeless travel Networks mass gathering

Index Keywords

tropical medicine priority journal Review Mediterranean Sea emporiatrics health care Q Fever population migration homeless person human migrant travel related disease travel
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85049002816&doi=10.1016%2fj.nmni.2018.05.006&partnerID=40&md5=c2ee7ac1aefcfdaffd763ae53fcf935e
DOI: 10.1016/j.nmni.2018.05.006
ISSN: 20522975
Original Language: English