Dengue fever in febrile returning travellers to a UK regional infectious diseases unit

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 89-93

  Stephenson, Iain ^a   Roper, John ^a   Fraser, Maria ^a   Nicholson, Karl ^a   Wiselka, Martin ^a  

^a LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dengue; Returning travellers

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENGUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; SHOCK; SYMPTOM; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TIME; TRAVEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 15944426736     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1477-8939(03)00061-9     Document Type: Article

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