Tropical rheumatology - A global issue

Rheumatology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 599-601

  Adebajo, Ade ^a,b   Mcgill, Paul ^c   Tikly, Mohammed ^d,e  

^a BARNSLEY DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG SAFETY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GONOCOCCAL ARTHRITIS; GOUT; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LEPROSY; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYOMYOSITIS; REACTIVE ARTHRITIS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RICKETS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TRAVEL; TROPICS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; TRAVEL; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 65849178093     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kep063     Document Type: Editorial

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