endemic

Examples of endemic in the following topics:

• Burkitt's Lymphoma

  • The tumor cells have a similar appearance to that of endemic Burkitt lymphoma.
  • The jaw is less commonly involved, compared to the endemic variant.
  • Distinguish between the three variants of Burkitt's lymphoma: endemic, sporadic and immunodeficiency-associated

• Occurrence of a Disease

  • Outbreaks may also refer to endemics that affect a particular place or group, epidemics that affect a region in a country or a group of countries, and pandemics that describe global disease outbreaks .
  • Zoonotic – The infectious agent is endemic to an animal population.

• The Vocabulary Epidemiology

  • The distinction between "epidemic" and "endemic" was first drawn by Hippocrates, to distinguish between diseases that are "visited upon" a population (epidemic) from those that "reside within" a population (endemic).
  • Compare and contrast the following concepts: epidemic, endemic, pandemic; incidence vs prevalence; morbidity vs mortality; incubation, latency, acute, decline and convalescent periods

• Brucellosis (Undulant Fever)

  • B. abortus also infects bison and elk in North America and B. suis is endemic in caribou.

• Coccidiomycosis

  • It is endemic in certain parts of Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah and northwestern Mexico.
  • There is currently no practical preventative measures available for people who live or travel through Valley Fever endemic areas.

• History of Epidemiology

  • The distinction between "epidemic" and "endemic" was first drawn by Hippocrates, to distinguish between diseases that are "visited upon" a population (epidemic) from those that "reside within" a population (endemic).

• Ecology, Epidemiology, and Evolution of Pathogens

  • For infectious diseases, it helps to determine if a disease outbreak is sporadic (occasional occurrence), endemic (regular cases often occurring in a region), epidemic (an unusually high number of cases in a region), or pandemic (a global epidemic).

• Antimycobacterial Antibiotics

  • However, the use of these multidrug treatments was costly and only adopted in endemic countries when the World Health Assembly passed a resolution to eliminate leprosy in 1991.

• African Trypanosomiasis

  • The disease is endemic in some regions of sub-Saharan Africa, covering areas in about 37 countries containing more than 60 million people.

• Fungi

  • This specific fungus is endemic in certain areas of the United States and infection is due to inhaling contaminated air.