Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Critically ill migrants with infection: diagnostic considerations for intensive care physicians in Europe

  • What's New in Intensive Care
  • Published:
Intensive Care Medicine Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1

References

  1. Tsiodras S (2015) Irregular migrants: a critical care or public health emergency. Intensive Care Med. doi:10.1007/s00134-015-4088-3

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  2. European Commission Statistics Agency Eurostat (2015) Asylum quarterly report. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Asylum_quarterly_report. Assessed 24 September 2015

  3. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees webpage (2015) Syria regional refugee response, inter-agency information sharing portal. http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/regional.php. Assessed 1 October 2015

  4. World Health Organization (2015) Syrian Arab Republic situation reports. http://www.who.int/hac/crises/syr/sitreps/en/. Assessed 22 September 2015

  5. Swerdlow DL, Malenga G, Begkoyian G, Nyangulu D, Toole M, Waldman RJ et al (1997) Epidemic cholera among refugees in Malawi, Africa: treatment and transmission. Epidemiol Infect 118:207–214

    Article  PubMed Central  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  6. Goma Epidemiology Group (1995) Public health impact of Rwandan refugee crisis: what happened in Goma, Zaire, in July, 1994? Lancet 345:339–344

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Mahamud A, Burton A, Hassan M, Ahmed JA, Wagacha JB, Spiegel P et al (2013) Risk factors for measles mortality among hospitalized Somali refugees displaced by famine, Kenya, 2011. Clin Infect Dis 57:e160–e166. doi:10.1093/cid/cit442

  8. Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) webpage (2015) Yellow Book, general approach to the returned traveler. http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbook/2016/post-travel-evaluation/general-approach-to-the-returned-traveler#4826. Assessed 22 September 2015

  9. Reuters UK news agency webpage (2015) Cold, fever and babies born on migrants’ long journey to Europe. http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/09/10/uk-europe-migrants-hungary-women-idUKKCN0RA29J20150910. Assessed 25 September 2015

  10. Kelesidis T, Mastoris I, Metsini A, Tsiodras S (2014) How to approach and treat viral infections in ICU patients. BMC Infect Dis 14:321. doi:10.1186/1471-2334-14-321

    Article  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  11. Martin P, Laupland KB, Frost EH, Valiquette L (2015) Laboratory diagnosis of Ebola virus disease. Intensive Care Med 41:895–898. doi:10.1007/s00134-015-3671-y

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  12. Greenaway C, Sandoe A, Vissandjee B, Kitai I, Gruner D, Wobeser W, Canadian Collaboration for Immigrant and Refugee Health et al (2011) Tuberculosis: evidence review for newly arriving immigrants and refugees. CMAJ 183:E939–E951. doi:10.1503/cmaj.090302

    Article  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  13. Anderson LF, Tamne S, Brown T, Watson JP, Mullarkey C, Zenner D et al (2014) Transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the UK: a cross-sectional molecular and epidemiological study of clustering and contact tracing. Lancet Infect Dis 14:406–415. doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(14)70022-2

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  14. Walsh TR, Weeks J, Livermore DM, Toleman MA (2011) Dissemination of NDM-1 positive bacteria in the New Delhi environment and its implications for human health: an environmental point prevalence study. Lancet Infect Dis 11:355–362. doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(11)70059-7

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  15. Wichmann D, Schmiedel S, Kluge S (2014) Isolation in patients with Ebola virus disease. Intensive Care Med 41:511–513. doi:10.1007/s00134-014-3582-3

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. 4th Department of Internal Medicine, Athens University School of Medicine, Attikon University General Hospital, 1 Rimini st, 12462, Athens, Greece

    Garyphallia Poulakou

  2. Infectious Diseases Division, Santa Maria Misericordia Hospital, Clinica Malattie Infettive, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Santa Maria della Misericordia, Piazzale Santa Maria della Misericordia 15, 33100, Udine, Italy

    Matteo Bassetti

  3. Réanimation Medicale et des Maladies Infectieuses, Université Paris Diderot/Hopital Bichat, 46 rue Henri Huchard, 75018, Paris, France

    Jean-François Timsit

  4. UMR 1137, IAME Team 5, DeSCID: Decision SCiences in Infectious Diseases, control and care, Inserm/Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 75018, Paris, France

    Jean-François Timsit

Authors
  1. Garyphallia Poulakou
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Matteo Bassetti
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Jean-François Timsit
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Garyphallia Poulakou.

Ethics declarations

Conflicts of interest

On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there is no conflict of interest.

Electronic supplementary material

Below is the link to the electronic supplementary material.

Supplementary material 1 (DOCX 24 kb)

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Poulakou, G., Bassetti, M. & Timsit, JF. Critically ill migrants with infection: diagnostic considerations for intensive care physicians in Europe. Intensive Care Med 42, 245–248 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-015-4090-9

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-015-4090-9

Keywords

Search

Navigation