Illness in returned travelers and immigrants/refugees: The 6-year experience of two Australian infectious diseases units

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 145-152

  O'Brien, Daniel P ^a,b,e   Leder, Karin ^a,c   Matchett, Elizabeth ^a   Brown, Graham V ^a,d   Torresi, Joseph ^a,d  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b GEELONG HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e Geelong Infectious Diseases Unit   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; CHOLERA VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA TETANUS VACCINE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE VACCINE; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VACCINE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; RABIES VACCINE; TYPHOID VACCINE; VACCINE; YELLOW FEVER VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENGUE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FEVER; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GASTROENTERITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HELMINTHIASIS; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INFECTION; INFLUENZA; LEPROSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REFUGEE; RICKETTSIOSIS; SALMONELLOSIS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN MANIFESTATION; TRAVEL; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VACCINATION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; REFUGEES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRAVEL; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

EID: 33646688680     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2006.00033.x     Document Type: Article

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