Impact of the pandemic on various infectious diseases with different epidemiological patterns of seasonality, transmission and age

CONCLUSIONS: The impact of the pandemic is very different in these diseases. Pediatric and respiratory-transmitted seasonal viral infections are the ones that are most affected, but with different patterns of recovery to normality. Gastrointestinal bacterial infections suffer fewer variations, except for rotavirus. Gonorrhea do not interrupt its increasing trend seen in the pre-pandemic. Shingles show a slight post-pandemic increase. Several diseases with different epidemiological patterns have been studied for a sufficient period to observe how the acute phase of the pandemic emerges.PMID:38385502

Source: Herpes - February 22, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Juan Carlos Gasc ó-Laborda M Dolores Tirado-Balaguer Mar ía Gil-Fortuño Gabriela Dorina Deaconescu Oihana Sabalza-Bazt án Óscar Pérez-Olaso Iris G ómez-Alfaro Noelia Hern ández-Pérez Juan B Bellido-Blasco Source Type: research