Preparing active patients for international travel

Physician and Sportsmedicine

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 27-35

  Jiménez, Carlos E ^a,b  

^a Ashford Presbyt Community Hospital   (Puerto Rico)

^b PMB 130   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL; BISMUTH SALICYLATE; CHICKENPOX VACCINE; CHLOROQUINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; DIPLOID CELL VACCINE; DOXYCYCLINE; GUAIFENESIN; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; HYDROCORTISONE; IBUPROFEN; INFLUENZA VACCINE; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VACCINE; LEVOFLOXACIN; LOPERAMIDE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; MEFLOQUINE; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; PSEUDOEPHEDRINE; RABIES VACCINE; RECOMBINANT HEPATITIS B VACCINE; SUNSCREEN; TYPHOID VACCINE; UNINDEXED DRUG; YELLOW FEVER VACCINE;

ALLERGY; ATHLETE; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; COMMON COLD; CONVULSION; COUGHING; DYSPEPSIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH HAZARD; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INSECT BITE; JET LAG; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NIGHTMARE; PAIN; PHOTOSENSITIVITY DISORDER; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRURITUS; PSYCHOSIS; RASH; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SPORTS MEDICINE; SUNBURN; TRAVEL; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; VAGINITIS; VERTIGO; VIRUS INFECTION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; YEAST;

EID: 0141960265     PISSN: 00913847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00913847.2003.11439952     Document Type: Review

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