Screening of apparently healthy people returning from »the tropics«;Undersøgelse af tilsyneladende raske personer, som er vendt hjem fra »de varme lande«

Ugeskrift for Laeger

Volumn 167, Issue 42, 2005, Pages 3997-4001

  Thybo, Sören ^a,b  

^a Epidemiafdelingen ^*  (Denmark)

^b University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOEBA; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMIGRANT; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRONGYLOIDES; TRAVEL; TROPICS; BLOOD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EOSINOPHILIA; FECES; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIGRATION; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PARASITOSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EOSINOPHILIA; FECES; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MASS SCREENING; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PARASITIC DISEASES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRAVEL; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

EID: 26944445090     PISSN: 00415782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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