Illness in travelers visiting friends and relatives: A review of the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1185-1193

  Leder, Karin ^a,b   Tong, Steven ^a   Weld, Leisa ^d   Kain, Kevin C ^e   Wilder Smith, Annelies ^f   Von Sonnenburg, Frank ^g   Black, Jim ^a,c   Brown, Graham V ^a,c   Torres, Joseph ^a,c  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIA; CHILD; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; FEVER; FRIEND; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INFECTION; INTESTINE INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PARASITOSIS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEX RATIO; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TOURISM; TRAVEL; TUBERCULOSIS; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FAMILY; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRAVEL;

EID: 33750135278     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/507893     Document Type: Article

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