International adoption: Infectious diseases issues

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 286-293

  Miller, Laurie C ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ARTICLE; CHILD NEGLECT; CULTURAL DEPRIVATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION; INTESTINE PARASITE; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL RECORD; ORPHANAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SYPHILIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VACCINATION;

ADOPTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY;

EID: 12144250299     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/427109     Document Type: Article

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