{
  "abstract": "Infectious diseases have always represented a substantial threat to military forces and, while context-specific, frequently contribute to a significant proportion of deployed disease non-battle injury (DNBI), impacting operational effectiveness.1 Infectious diseases represent a significant amount of DNBI in previous and current conflicts, although this varies depending on the location and nature of deployment.2 3 Presentations to the R2 during a 3-month period on Op TRENTON demonstrated a high proportion of infections, including undifferentiated febrile illness (UFI), acute gastrointestinal illness and malaria.4",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Centre of Defence Pathology, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham, England, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Nicola Reece"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Institute of Naval Medicine, Gosport, Hampshire, UK"
      ],
      "name": "M JW Kain"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham, UK"
      ],
      "name": "L Swithenbank"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [],
      "name": "The Military Infection Working Group"
    }
  ],
  "title": "UK military infection referral service: a review of activity 2018–2024",
  "uid": "fbca9180-e53c-52e2-92eb-a6e463227b1d"
}