Sport and infectious risk: A systematic review of the literature over 20 years

Grosset-Janin, A.; Nicolás, Xavier; Saraux, Alain

doi:10.1016/j.medmal.2012.10.002

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“…Thus, small injuries with blood contact to others might be sufficient to transmit the virus [16, 17]. Consequently, the vaccination is relevant in all sports with possible contact to blood and body fluids, such as football, boxing, and hockey, but less so in sports such as tennis or most winter sports [76]. Moreover, hepatitis B is highly prevalent in Africa, parts of Asia, and Latin America.…”

Section: Indications For Vaccination In Elite Athletesmentioning

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Vaccination in Elite Athletes

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Meyer

2014

Sports Med

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Public health vaccination guidelines cannot be easily transferred to elite athletes. An enhanced benefit from preventing even mild diseases is obvious but stronger interference from otherwise minor side effects has to be considered as well. Thus, special vaccination guidelines for adult elite athletes are required. In most of them, protection should be strived for against tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, influenza, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, measles, mumps and varicella. When living or traveling to endemic areas, the athletes should be immune against tick-borne encephalitis, yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, poliomyelitis, typhoid fever, and meningococcal disease. Vaccination against pneumococci and Haemophilus influenzae type b is only relevant in athletes with certain underlying disorders. Rubella and papillomavirus vaccination might be considered after an individual risk–benefit analysis. Other vaccinations such as cholera, rabies, herpes zoster, and Bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) cannot be universally recommended for athletes at present. Only for a very few diseases, a determination of antibody titers is reasonable to avoid unnecessary vaccinations or to control efficacy of an individual’s vaccination (especially for measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, hepatitis B and, partly, hepatitis A). Vaccinations should be scheduled in a way that possible side effects are least likely to occur in periods of competition. Typically, vaccinations are well tolerated by elite athletes, and resulting antibody titers are not different from the general population. Side effects might be reduced by an optimal selection of vaccines and an appropriate technique of administration. Very few discipline-specific considerations apply to an athlete’s vaccination schedule mainly from the competition and training pattern as well as from the typical geographical distribution of competitive sites.

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Vaccination in Elite Athletes

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Meyer

2014

Sports Med

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“…To emphasize the skin-friendliness of our pSBMAmodified surfaces, pathogenic S. aureus was selected for the antifouling assay of the prepared pSBMA-g-PP samples due to its well-documented risk associated with infections 68,69 and the prevalence of S. aureus incidents within the sporting community. 7,14,70 It can be seen from Figure 8 that tethered pSBMA brushes are effective in preventing the cell adhesion of S. aureus. The antifouling properties of the modified surfaces improved dramatically with increased grafting density, achieving negligible bacteria adhesion (0.09 % cell-surface coverage) for samples irradiated for longer than 900 s as compared to the 33.4 % coverage on the PP control.…”

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“…Overlooking this may result in undesirable skin conditions such as friction blisters, 1 diaper rash, 2 airbag lesions, 3 turf burns 1,4,5 and dermatological infections. 6,7 This research is part of a larger aim to address the issue of turf burns, where high injury rates of skin abrasion [8][9][10] ( Figure 1) have been reported from the use of artificial turf surfaces for sports such as football and rugby. Despite half a decade-worth of product development and innovation since its first introduction in the 1960s, there has been little advances to address the higher rates of skin abrasions recorded on artificial turf surfaces, apart from the adoption of softer polyolefins (polyethylene and polypropylene) for turf yarn manufacturing in the 1970s to replace the stiff, abrasive polyamide fibres.…”

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Addressing skin abrasions on artificial turfs with zwitterionic polymer brushes

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“…In turn, skin pyoinflammatory diseases rank first in the general structure of infectious pathology of athletes [2,3,12]. Practice shows that every athlete during his sports career faces problem of skin contagions (SC) [4,13,16]. The most common infections among wrestlers are: mycotic infections (such as ringworm); viral infections (such as "herpes gladiatorum", the causative agent thereof is herpes simplex virus (HSV-1)); bacterial infections (e.g.…”

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