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Respiratory Disease, the Environment, and the Military: Important, Unexplored Frontiers

Author(s) -

José Luis SánchezRamos,

Joel C. Gaydos

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

the journal of infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.69

H-Index - 252

eISSN - 1537-6613

pISSN - 0022-1899

DOI - 10.1086/592712

Subject(s) - infectious disease (medical specialty) , medicine , military personnel , incidence (geometry) , disease , respiratory system , respiratory illness , intensive care medicine , military medicine , geography , physics , archaeology , optics

[1] report on the incidence of febrile respiratory illness (FRI) among Marine recruits during their first 4 weeks of military training, as well as the effect that closed training environments (units closed to the influx of potentially infectious convalescing persons [hereafter referred to as "closed units"]) versus open training environments (units open to the influx of potentially infectious convalescing persons [hereafter referred to as "open units"] ) had on the transmission of respiratory pathogens, specifically adenoviruses. The open units accepted recruits transferring from medical convalescent or physical conditioning units. Up to 10% of these transferred recruits had adenovi-

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