Infectious diseases during the European Union training mission Mali(EUTM MLI)–a four-year experience : = Infectious diseases during the European Union training mission Mali(EUTM MLI)–a four-year experience

Background: The European Union Training Mission Mali(EUTM MLI) is a multinational military training deployment to the Western African tropical nation of Mali. Based on routinely collected disease and non-battle injury surveillance data, this study quantifies the true impact of infectious diseases for this tropical mission and potential seasonal variations in infectious disease threats.Methods: Categorized health events during the EUTM MLI mission and associated lost working days were reported using the EpiNATO-2 report. Infection-related health events were descriptively analyzed for a 4-year period from the 12 th week in 2013 to the 13 th week in 2017. Aggregated EpiNATO-2 data collected from all missions other than EUTM MLI were used as a comparator.Results: Among the infectious diseases reported by EUTM MLI, non-severe upper respiratory infections and gastrointestinal diseases dominated quantitatively, accounting for 1.65 and 1.42 consultations per 100 person-weeks, respectively. The number of recorded infectious disease-associated lost working days during the whole study interval was 723. Seasonal changes in disease frequency were detectable. More gastrointestinal infections were seen in the rainy season, and more respiratory infections occurred in the dry season; these were associated with peaks of more than 2.5 consultations per 100 person-weeks for both categories.Conclusion: Despite initial concerns focused on tropical infectious diseases during this mission in tropical Mali, upper respiratory tract and gastrointestinal infections predominate. The relatively low number of reported lost working days may indicate that these infections are at the milder end of the spectrum of infectious diseases despite a likely reporting bias..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018-12-15

2018

Erschienen:

2018-12-15

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2018

Enthalten in:

Military medical research - (2018), 04 vom: 15. Dez., Seite 293-303

Original Letters: Enthalten in (DE-576)405815409 (DE-576)405815409

Reihe:

China Academic Journals (CAJ), E, 医药卫生科技 = Medicine & Public Health

Sprache:

Chinesisch

Weiterer Titel:

Infectious diseases during the European Union training mission Mali(EUTM MLI)–a four-year experience

Beteiligte Personen:

Hagen Frickmann [VerfasserIn]
Ralf Matthias Hagen [Sonstige Person]
Florian Geiselbrechtinger [Sonstige Person]
Nagpal Hoysal [Sonstige Person]

Links:

oversea.cnki.net [lizenzpflichtig]

Themen:

医药、卫生
医药卫生科技
特种医学
Department of Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Bundeswehr Hospital Hamburg
Department of Preventive Medicine, Bundeswehr Medical Academy
Gastrointestinal infections
Infectious diseases
Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medicine Rostock
Institute of Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology
Mali
Medicine & Public Health
Military Medicine and Hygiene
NATO Center of Excellence for Military Medicine (MilMedCOE), Deployment Health Surveillance Capability (DHSC)
Special Medicine
Tropical deployment
Tropical medicine
Upper respiratory tract infections

Anmerkungen:

Author info:Hagen Frickmann;Ralf Matthias Hagen;Florian Geiselbrechtinger;Nagpal Hoysal;Department of Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Bundeswehr Hospital Hamburg;Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medicine Rostock;Department of Preventive Medicine, Bundeswehr Medical Academy;NATO Center of Excellence for Military Medicine (MilMedCOE), Deployment Health Surveillance Capability (DHSC);Institute of Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

CAJ614443504