Travel medicine: Helping patients prepare for trips abroad

American Family Physician

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 383-398

  Dick, Lew ^a  

^a St Anthony Hospital Oklahoma City   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CHICKENPOX VACCINE; CHLOROQUINE; CHOLERA VACCINE; DIETHYLTOLUAMIDE; DIPHTHERIA TETANUS VACCINE; HEPATITIS A ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; INSECT REPELLENT; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VACCINE; LOPERAMIDE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; MEFLOQUINE; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; OFLOXACIN; PERMETHRIN; PLAGUE VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; RABIES VACCINE; TYPHOID VACCINE; VACCINE; YELLOW FEVER VACCINE;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; MALARIA; MEDICINE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; TRAVEL; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; YELLOW FEVER;

HUMANS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; TEACHING MATERIALS; TRAVEL;

EID: 0031875247     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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