Country profile: Travelling to Australia

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 126-133

  Shaw, Marc M T ^a   Leggat, Peter A ^b  

^a Worldwise Traveller's Health   (New Zealand)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Bites and stings; Infectious diseases; Outback; Travel health advice

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; CHOLERA VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA VACCINE; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; MUMPS VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; RABIES VACCINE; RUBELLA VACCINE; SUNSCREEN; TETANUS TOXOID; TYPHOID VACCINE; YELLOW FEVER VACCINE;

AUSTRALIA; DROWNING; EPIDEMIC; FOOD SAFETY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; HYGIENE; MALARIA; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROSS RIVER ALPHA VIRUS; RURAL AREA; SAFETY; SUN EXPOSURE; TRAVEL; TROPICAL DISEASE; VIRUS INFECTION; YELLOW FEVER;

EID: 11144252005     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1477-8939(03)00020-6     Document Type: Review

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