Health Risks for Travelers to Lebanon

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 280-285

  Musharrafieh, Umayya M ^a   Bizri, Adul Rahamn ^a   El Hajj, Ibrahim ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BRUCELLOSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; HEALTH HAZARD; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LEBANON; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SERVICE; PARASITOSIS; RABIES; REVIEW; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRAVEL; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; TYPHUS;

DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HUMANS; LEBANON; MALE; TRAVEL; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 0142136824     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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