Zoonotic infections in travelers to the tropics

Primary Care - Clinics in Office Practice

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 907-929

  Sellman, Jonathan ^a   Bender, Jeff ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTIDERMATOPHYTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; MEBENDAZOLE; MELARSOPROL; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RABIES VACCINE; RIBAVIRIN; RIFAMPICIN; STIBOGLUCONATE SODIUM; SURAMIN; TETRACYCLINE; TIABENDAZOLE;

BACTERIUM; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLICATION; FEVER; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PROTEINURIA; PROTOZOON; PRURITUS; REVIEW; TRAVEL; TROPICS; URTICARIA; VIRUS; VOMITING; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 0036956674     PISSN: 00954543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0095-4543(02)00040-4     Document Type: Review

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