Evaluation of the Ill returned traveler

Clinics in Family Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 805-834

  Bacaner, Nina ^a   Wilson, Mary E ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLARITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; QUININE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; DENGUE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EOSINOPHILIA; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FATALITY; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HEPATITIS A; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION; INFLUENZA; INSECT BITE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALARIA; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RICKETTSIOSIS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SKIN DISEASE; TRAVEL; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 29644442009     PISSN: 15225720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cfp.2005.09.004     Document Type: Review

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