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. 2019 Jul 27;153(5):205–212. doi: 10.1016/j.medcle.2019.03.013

Table 1.

Exposure and activity carried out.

Contact with fresh water Schistosomiasis, leptospirosis, free-living amebiasis
Direct contact with land (walking barefoot) Ancylostomiasis, strongyloidiasis, cutaneous larva migrans, tungiasis
Contact with animals Rabies, tularemia, Q-fever, anthrax, viral haemorrhagic fevers, plague, brucellosis
Dairy consumption Brucellosis, tuberculosis, shigellosis
Untreated water consumption Amebiasis, ulcer, hepatitis A and E, typhoid fever, shigellosis, cryptosporidiasis, cyclosporiasis, giardiasis
Consumption of raw or undercooked foods Hepatitis A, bacterial enteric infections, trichinosis, amebiasis, toxoplasmosis, cestodiasis, hepatic dystomatosis
High-risk sexual contact HIV, hepatitis A, B and C, herpes, gonorrhoea, syphilis, Epstein-Barr virus, cytomegalovirus
Caves Histoplasmosis, rabies
Contact with ill-patients Tuberculosis, meningitis, influenza, MERS-CoV, HF (Ebola, Crimean-Congo, Lassa)
Exposure to arthropods
 Mosquitoes Malaria, dengue, yellow fever, other arboviriasis, filariasis
 Ticks Rickettsiosis, borreliosis, Q-fever, tularemia, encephalitis, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever
 Flies African trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, onchocerciasis, bartonellosis
 Fleas Murine typhus, plague
 Lice Exanthematic typhus, relapsing fever
 Mites Shrub typhus