The traveller and emerging infections: Sentinel, courier, transmitter

Journal of Applied Microbiology Symposium Supplement

Volumn 94, Issue 32, 2003, Pages

  Wilson, Mary E ^a  

^a MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AVIATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DENGUE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENT; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; FUNGUS; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HELMINTH; HOST; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INSECT; LABORATORY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOSQUITO; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLITICS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; POPULATION SIZE; PROTOZOON; SHIP; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRAVEL; VIRUS; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DENGUE; DISEASE VECTORS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SHIPS; TRAVEL; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVINAE; FLAVIVIRUS; FUNGI; INSECTA; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PROTOZOA; VERMES; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 0038070407     PISSN: 02674440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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