Fever in returned travelers: Results from the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1560-1568

  Wilson, Mary E ^a,b,i   Weld, Leisa H ^c   Boggild, Andrea ^d,e   Keystone, Jay S ^d,e   Kain, Kevin C ^d,e   Von Sonnenburg, Frank ^f   Schwartz, Eli ^g,h  

^a MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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

^d TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^g SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^h TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

ⁱ NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VACCINE;

ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIA; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FEVER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; TRAVEL; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; VACCINATION;

ADULT; AGED; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FEVER; GEOGRAPHY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; TRAVEL; TROPICAL MEDICINE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 34249890268     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/518173     Document Type: Article

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