Epidemic infectious gastrointestinal illness aboard U.S. Navy ships deployed to the Middle East during peacetime operations - 2000-2001

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Riddle, Mark S ^a   Smoak, Bonnie L ^b   Thornton, Scott A ^c   Bresee, Joseph S ^d   Faix, Dennis J ^e   Putnam, Shannon D ^f  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit 6   (United States)

^d NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^e NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^f US Naval Medical Research Unit No 2 Jakarta   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE EAST; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; MORBIDITY; NAVY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHIP; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES; VIRUS INFECTION;

ABSENTEEISM; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INDIAN OCEAN; MIDDLE EAST; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHIPS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646269061     PISSN: 1471230X     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-6-9     Document Type: Article

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