Tuberculosis and air travel: WHO guidance in the era of drug-resistant TB

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 177-181

  Martinez, Lindsay ^a   Blanc, Léopold ^a   Nunn, Paul ^a   Raviglione, Mario ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Contact investigation; International health regulations; Multidrug resistant tuberculosis; WHO guidelines

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CAPREOMYCIN; ISONIAZID; KANAMYCIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

AIRBORNE INFECTION; AIRCRAFT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AVIATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; LEGAL ASPECT; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SPACE FLIGHT; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AIRCRAFT; CONTACT TRACING; EXTENSIVELY DRUG-RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TRAVEL; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 45249111605     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2007.10.004     Document Type: Article

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