The current syndemic in Venezuela: Measles, malaria and more co-infections coupled with a breakdown of social and healthcare infrastructure. Quo vadis?

Alfonso J Rodríguez-Morales; José Antonio Suárez; Alejandro Risquez; Lourdes Delgado-Noguera; Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi

doi:10.1016/j.tmaid.2018.10.010

The current syndemic in Venezuela: Measles, malaria and more co-infections coupled with a breakdown of social and healthcare infrastructure. Quo vadis?

Travel Med Infect Dis. 2019 Jan-Feb:27:5-8. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2018.10.010. Epub 2018 Oct 14.

Authors

Alfonso J Rodríguez-Morales¹, José Antonio Suárez², Alejandro Risquez³, Lourdes Delgado-Noguera⁴, Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi⁵

Affiliations

¹ Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia; Committe on Travel Medicine, Pan-American Association of Infectious Diseases (API), Panama City, Panama; Latin American Society for Travel Medicine (SLAMVI), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Electronic address: arodriguezm@utp.edu.co.
² Committe on 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 Committe on Travel Medicine, Pan-American Association of Infectious Diseases (API), Panama City, Panama; Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela; Latin American Society for Travel Medicine (SLAMVI), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁴ Infectious Diseases Research Branch, Venezuelan Science Incubator and the Zoonosis and Emerging Pathogens Regional Collaborative Network, Cabudare, 3023, Lara, Venezuela.
⁵ Committe 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.

PMID: 30326278
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2018.10.010

No abstract available

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

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Coinfection / epidemiology*
Coinfection / microbiology
Coinfection / parasitology
Coinfection / virology
Communicable Disease Control
Communicable Diseases / epidemiology
Delivery of Health Care
Humans
Public Health*
Syndemic*
Vaccination
Venezuela / epidemiology