Mobile populations across the Mediterranean Sea and beyond: travel medicine, mass gathering medicine and homeless health

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Philippe Gautret, Aix-Marseille Université; B. Pradines, Institut de Recherche Biomedicale des Armees; Ziad Memish, Emory University; C. Sokhna, Aix-Marseille Université; P. Parola, Aix-Marseille Université
• Language: English
• Date: 2018-05
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © 2018 The Authors
• License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2018.05.006
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: New Microbes and New Infections
• ISSN: 2052-2975
• Keywords: surveillance; mass gathering; homeless; travel; Hajj; Grand Magal; networks
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Public Health

Abstract

The Méditerranée Infection institute is internationally recognized for its expertise in infectious diseases and tropical medicine, and is one of the most active research centres for infectious diseases in Europe. Surveillance and research addressing infectious diseases in globally mobile populations is one of the strong components of the research conducted at the institute. A significant amount of clinical, microbiologic and epidemiologic works have been conducted in international travellers, pilgrims participating in large international religious gatherings, economic migrants and homeless migrant people over the last decades by our group. Our strong anchoring in several countries around the Mediterranean Sea and beyond, as well as the pivotal role of Marseille in the EuroTravNet and GeoSentinel international networks that monitor travel-associated diseases, reinforce our leading position in the fields of travel and tropical medicine, mass gathering medicine and homeless health.