Assessment of travellers who return home ill

Lancet

Volumn 361, Issue 9367, 2003, Pages 1459-1469

  Spira, Alan M ^a  

^a Travel Medicine Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DENGUE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FEVER; GEOGRAPHY; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; LABORATORY TEST; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALARIA; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; RICKETTSIOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF MEDICATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRAVEL; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; TROPICAL MEDICINE; TYPHOID FEVER; VIRUS INFECTION; ANAMNESIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; METHODOLOGY; TIME;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEVER; HUMANS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

EID: 0037467509     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)13141-8     Document Type: Review

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