The profile of health problems in African immigrants attending an infectious disease unit in melbourne, Australia

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 805-811

  Gibney, Katherine B ^a,b,c   Mihrshahi, Seema ^a,b,c   Torresi, Joseph ^a,b,c   Marshall, Caroline ^a,b,c   Leder, Karin ^a,b,c   Biggs, Beverley Ann ^a,b,c  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HEPATITIS B; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INFECTION; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NEUTROPHILIA; PARASITE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSICIAN; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TUBERCULOSIS; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION;

HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGED; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VICTORIA; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66149127697     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.80.805     Document Type: Article

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