In the eye of the storm: Infectious disease challenges for border countries receiving Venezuelan migrants

Alfonso J Rodríguez-Morales; José Antonio Suárez; Alejandro Risquez; Sergio Cimerman; Nereida Valero-Cedeño; Maritza Cabrera; Martin P Grobusch; Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi

doi:10.1016/j.tmaid.2019.05.014

In the eye of the storm: Infectious disease challenges for border countries receiving Venezuelan migrants

Travel Med Infect Dis. 2019 Jul-Aug:30:4-6. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2019.05.014. Epub 2019 May 24.

Authors

Alfonso J Rodríguez-Morales¹, José Antonio Suárez², Alejandro Risquez³, Sergio Cimerman⁴, Nereida Valero-Cedeño⁵, Maritza Cabrera⁶, Martin P Grobusch⁷, Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi⁸

Affiliations

¹ Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia; Committee of Travel Medicine, Pan-American Association of Infectious Diseases (API), Panama City, Panama. Electronic address: arodriguezm@utp.edu.co.
² Committee of Travel Medicine, Pan-American Association of Infectious Diseases (API), Panama City, Panama; Investigador SNI Senacyt Panamá, Clinical Research Department, Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud, Panama City, Panama.
³ Committee of Travel Medicine, Pan-American Association of Infectious Diseases (API), Panama City, Panama; Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela.
⁴ Institute of Infectious Diseases Emilio Ribas, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁵ Carrera de Laboratorio Clínico, Universidad Estatal del Sur de Manabí, Cantón Jipijapa, Ecuador.
⁶ Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Postgrado (VRIP), Universidad Católica del Maule, Chile.
⁷ Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
⁸ Committee on Travel Medicine, Pan-American Association of Infectious Diseases (API), Panama City, Panama; Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Clínica IDB Cabudare, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas IDB, Barquisimeto, 3023, Lara, Venezuela; Infectious Diseases Research Branch, Venezuelan Science Incubator and the Zoonosis and Emerging Pathogens Regional Collaborative Network, Cabudare, 3023, Lara, Venezuela; Laboratorio de Señalización Celular y Bioquímica de Parásitos, Instituto de Estudios Avanzados (IDEA), Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela; Academia Nacional de Medicina, Caracas, Venezuela.

PMID: 31129271
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2019.05.014

No abstract available

Keywords: Arboviruses; Brazil; Colombia; Diphtheria; Latin America; Malaria; Measles; Pertussis; Travelers; Vaccination; Venezuela.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Communicable Disease Control*
Communicable Diseases / epidemiology*
Developing Countries
Humans
Transients and Migrants*
Vaccination
Venezuela