The burden of illness in international travelers

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 354, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 115-117

  Hill, David R ^a,b  

^a National Travel Health Network and Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ASIA; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMPORIATRICS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GEOGRAPHIC PATHOLOGY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LEISHMANIASIS; MALARIA; NOROVIRUS; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SHORT SURVEY; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TRAVEL; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; TROPICAL DISEASE; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; VACCINATION;

DENGUE; DIARRHEA; HUMANS; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALARIA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; RISK; TRAVEL; TROPICAL MEDICINE; TYPHOID FEVER; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 30444438052     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp058292     Document Type: Short Survey

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