title: In harm's way: infections in deployed American military forces.
abstract: Hundreds of thousands of American service members have been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001. With emphasis on the common infections and the chronic infections that may present or persist on their return to the United States, we review the data on deployment-associated infections. These infections include gastroenteritis; respiratory infection; war wound infection with antibiotic-resistant, gram-negative bacteria; Q fever; brucellosis; and parasitic infections, such as malaria and leishmaniasis.
authors.affiliation: Infectious Diseases Division, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA. naronson@usuhs.mil
authors.forename: Naomi E
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Aronson
authors.forename: John W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Sanders
authors.forename: Kimberly A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Moran
mesh_terms: D002006:Brucellosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004403:Dysentery / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007493:Iraq; D007896:Leishmaniasis / Q000453:epidemiology; D008288:Malaria / Q000453:epidemiology; D008889:Military Personnel; D011778:Q Fever / Q000453:epidemiology; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014728:Veterans; D014857:Warfare; D014946:Wound Infection / Q000453:epidemiology