Eurosurveillance
Volume 21, Issue 10, 2016

Profile of illness in syrian refugees: A geosentinel analysis, 2013 to 2015 (Article) (Open Access)

Mockenhaupt F.P.* , Barbre K.A. , Jensenius M. , Larsen C.S. , Barnett E.D. , Stauffer W. , Rothe C. , Asgeirsson H. , Hamer D.H. , Esposito D.H. , Gautret P. , Schlagenhauf P.
  • a Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • b Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, United States
  • c Department of Infectious Diseases, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
  • d Department of Infectious Diseases, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Aarhus, Denmark
  • e Maxwell Finland Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, Boston Medical Center, Boston, United States
  • f Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, St Paul, United States
  • g University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Department of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Bernhard Nocht Clinic, Hamburg, Germany
  • h Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
  • i Department of Global Health and Center for Global Health and Development, Boston University School of Public HealthMA, United States, Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical CenterMA, United States
  • j Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, United States
  • k University Hospital Institute for Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France
  • l University of Zürich Centre for Travel Medicine, WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers’ Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, Zürich, Switzerland

Abstract

Screening of 488 Syrian unaccompanied minor refugees (< 18 years-old) in Berlin showed low prevalence of intestinal parasites (Giardia, 7%), positive schistosomiasis serology (1.4%) and absence of hepatitis B. Among 44 ill adult Syrian refugees examined at GeoSentinel clinics worldwide, cutaneous leishmaniasis affected one in three patients; other noteworthy infections were active tuberculosis (11%) and chronic hepatitis B or C (9%). These data can contribute to evidence- based guidelines for infectious disease screening of Syrian refugees. © 2016, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). All rights reserved.

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Germany refugee mass screening blastocystis Syrian Arab Republic human Refugees Communicable Diseases Cohort Studies statistics and numerical data giardiasis health status chronic hepatitis C Aged ethnology disease surveillance Sentinel Surveillance school child migrant Humans classification Adolescent male Emigrants and Immigrants female tuberculosis Ambulatory Care Facilities outpatient department Article major clinical study Syrian adult schistosomiasis Syria chronic hepatitis B cohort analysis infection skin leishmaniasis emporiatrics Berlin Child
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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85003876050&doi=10.2807%2f1560-7917.ES.2016.21.10.30160&partnerID=40&md5=a2a3d7300cca835785d9b41a7fd51ed6
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.10.30160
ISSN: 1025496X
Cited by: 45
Original Language: English