Author/Editor		Duh, Darja; Avšič-Županc, Tatjana
Title		Molecular diagnostics of emerging infectious disease
Translated title		Molekularna diagnostika porajajočih se in nevarnih mikroorganizmov
Type		članek
Source		In: Luzar B, Poljak M, Glavač D, et al, editors. Molekularna diagnostika v medicini. Zbornik 15. spominsko srečanje akademika Janeza Milčinskega, 36. memorialni sestanek profesorja Janeza Plečnika, 1. srečanje Slovenskega društva za humano genetiko z mednarodno udeležbo; 2005 30 nov - 2 dec; Ljubljana. Ljubljana: Medicinska fakulteta,
Publication year		2005
Volume		str. 439-47
Language		eng
Abstract		Infectious diseases are today a leading cause of death worldwide, with continously increasing mortality. Over the past few years. increasing concern and attention have been directed at the problems and issues associated with emerging and reemerging diseases. Emerging infectious diseases can be defined as the infections that have newly appeared in the population or have existed, but are rapidly increasing in incidence or geographic range. Re-emerging diseases encompass the diseases whose causative agents appeared randomly, after many years of absence in the areas where they had been reported before. but are rapidly increasing through reduced vaccine coverage or through gaining resistance to antibiotics. The emergening infectious diseases require a sophisticated surveillance with clinical, diagnostic, and epidemiological components on an international scale. In the present paper we will review the examples of detection and diagnosis of emerging infectious diseases using various molecular techniques, such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR), reverse transcription PCR, real time PCR, sequencing and reverse genetics.
Descriptors		COMMUNICABLE DISEASES EMERGENCIES POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION ANAPLASMOSIS BABESIOSIS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO PNEUMONIA, VIRAL INFLUENZA A VIRUS, AVIAN