Traveller's 'funny tummy': Reviewing the evidence for complementary medicine

Australian Family Physician

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 335-336

  Cohen, Marc ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT;

AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GINGER; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MOTION SICKNESS; REVIEW; TRAVEL;

AUSTRALIA; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIARRHEA; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FAMILY PRACTICE; GINGER; HUMANS; MOTION SICKNESS; PROBIOTICS; TRAVEL;

EID: 34347257418     PISSN: 03008495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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