Communicable diseases in the immigrant population attended to in a tropical medicine unit: Epidemiological aspects and public health issues

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 4-11

  Manzardo, Christian ^a   Treviño, Begoña ^a   Gómez i Prat, Jordi ^a   Cabezos, Juan ^a   Monguí, Eliana ^a   Clavería, Isabel ^a   Luis Del Val, José ^a   Zabaleta, Edurne ^b   Zarzuela, Francesc ^a   Navarro, Roser ^a  

^a INSTITUT CATALÀ DE LA SALUT   (Spain)

^b Research Unit   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Emerging communicable diseases; Emigration and immigration; HIV; Public health; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; TUBERCULIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EASTERN EUROPE; ECUADOR; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EQUATORIAL GUINEA; FEMALE; GHANA; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMIGRANT; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INDIA; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOROCCO; NIGERIA; PAKISTAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SCREENING; SENEGAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; SIERRA LEONE; SPAIN; SYPHILIS; TROPICAL MEDICINE; TROPICS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPAIN; SYPHILIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 40849147034     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2007.11.002     Document Type: Article

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