Korean J Infect Dis.  1999 Feb;31(1):65-78.

Emerging Infectious Disease by Industrialization and Technology

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  • 1Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Catholic University of Korea, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

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.

Keyword

Industrialization; Technology; Infection

MeSH Terms

Campylobacter
Communicable Diseases
Communicable Diseases, Emerging*
Cyclospora
Escherichia coli O157
Immunocompromised Host
Opportunistic Infections
Salmonella
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