SARS: The new challenge to international health and travel medicine

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 4-5, 2004, Pages 655-662

  Venkatesh, S ^a   Memish, Z A ^a  

^a KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVIATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; FEVER; HAND WASHING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MANDATORY REPORTING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CARE; POPULATION DENSITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SAUDI ARABIA; SCREENING TEST; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TRAVEL; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AVIATION; CASE MANAGEMENT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CONTACT TRACING; FOMITES; MASS SCREENING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SAUDI ARABIA; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TRAVEL; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 28444438849     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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