Dengue fever in travelers returning from Southeast Asia

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 208-213

  Sung, Valerie ^a   O'Brien, Daniel P ^a   Matchett, Elizabeth ^a   Brown, Graham V ^a   Torresi, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DENGUE; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; RASH; REVIEW; RICKETTSIOSIS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TRAVEL; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 0042662594     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7060.2003.40555     Document Type: Review

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