Pre-travel advice: An overview

Primary Care - Clinics in Office Practice

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 767-785

  Sanford, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BACTERIAL VACCINE; CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE INHIBITOR; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DIETHYLTOLUAMIDE; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; INSECTICIDE; LAMIVUDINE; LIVE VACCINE; MACROLIDE; MEFLOQUINE; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RABIES VACCINE; STAVUDINE; STEROID; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VACCINE; TYPHOID VACCINE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VACCINE; VIRUS VACCINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

AIR QUALITY; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ANXIETY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHOLERA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CRIME; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DENGUE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FOOD SAFETY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HEPATITIS A; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION; INFLUENZA; INSECT CONTROL; JET LAG; LEISHMANIASIS; LUNG EDEMA; MALARIA; MENTAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MOTION SICKNESS; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STRESS; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAVEL; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; TYPHOID FEVER; WATER CONTAMINATION;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRAVEL;

EID: 0036952440     PISSN: 00954543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0095-4543(02)00046-5     Document Type: Review

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