Brazil burning! What is the potential impact of the Amazon wildfires on vector-borne and zoonotic emerging diseases? – A statement from an international experts meeting

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 31, Issue , 2019, Pages

  Bonilla Aldana, D Katterine ^a,b,c   Suárez, José Antonio ^d,e,f   Franco Paredes, Carlos ^g,h   Vilcarromero, Stalin ⁱ   Mattar, Salim ^b,j   Gómez Marín, Jorge E ^b,k   Villamil Gómez, Wilmer E ^b,e,l,m   Ruíz Sáenz, Julián ^b,n   Cardona Ospina, Jaime A ^a,b,c,e,o   Idarraga Bedoya, Samuel E ^a   García Bustos, Juan Javier ^p,q   Jimenez Posada, Erika V ^c,o   Rodríguez Morales, Alfonso J ^b,c,e,o,r  

^a FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Colombia)

^b Colombian Association of Infectious Diseases ^*  (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE PEREIRA   (Colombia)

^d Tecnología e innovación   (Panama)

^e Sociedad Latinoamericana de Infectología Pediátrica ^*  (Panama)

^f Sociedad Latinoamericana de Infectología Pediátrica   (Panama)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^h HOSPITAL INFANTIL DE MÉXICO FEDERICO GÓMEZ   (Mexico)

ⁱ STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSIDAD DE CÓRDOBA   (Colombia)

^k UNIVERSIDAD DEL QUINDÍO   (Colombia)

^l Hospital Universitario de Sincelejo   (Colombia)

^m UNIVERSIDAD DEL ATLÁNTICO   (Colombia)

ⁿ UNIVERSIDAD COOPERATIVA DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^o Risaralda   (Colombia)

^p UNIVERSIDAD DE LA AMAZONIA   (Colombia)

^q UNIVERSIDAD DEL MAGDALENA   (Colombia)

^r Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases   (Colombia)

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Author keywords

Brazil; Ecoepidemiology; Emerging; Land use change; Latin America; Vector borne diseases; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

AMAZONAS (BRAZIL); COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DEFORESTATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE RE-EMERGENCE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILDFIRE; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; BRAZIL; EXPERT WITNESS; GLOBAL HEALTH;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE VECTORS; EXPERT TESTIMONY; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; WILDFIRES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 85071881716     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2019.101474     Document Type: Editorial

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