title: Infectious disease and the collegiate athlete.
abstract: Collegiate athletes are common reservoirs for infectious disease agents. Specific training regimens, living arrangements, and high-risk behaviors may influence the athlete's risk of contracting a variety of infectious diseases. The sports medicine physician plays an important role in recognizing, appropriately treating, designing prevention strategies for, and making return-to-activity decisions for athletes who have infectious diseases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family and Community Medicine, Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship, University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center, K 433 Kentucky Clinic, Lexington, KY 40536, USA. rhosey@email.uky.edu <rhosey@email.uky.edu>
authors.forename: Robert G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Hosey
authors.forename: Richard E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Rodenberg
mesh_terms: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D018562:Disease Transmission, Infectious / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D007239:Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D009017:Morbidity / Q000639:trends; D012307:Risk Factors; D013177:Sports