Imported infectious diseases and surveillance in Japan

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 349-354

  Taniguchi, Kiyosu ^a   Yoshida, Makiko ^a   Sunagawa, Tomimasa ^a   Tada, Yuki ^a   Okabe, Nobuhiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Imported; Infectious diseases; Japan; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; BRUCELLOSIS; CHOLERA; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; DENGUE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GIARDIASIS; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS E; HUMAN; IMPORT DISEASE; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; ORNITHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; RABIES; SALMONELLOSIS; SCRUB TYPHUS; SHIGELLOSIS; SYPHILIS; TETANUS; TREND STUDY; TYPHOID FEVER;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; JAPAN; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 54849425741     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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