Screening the asymptomatic traveler returning from the tropics;Bilan de santé chez le voyageur asymptomatique de retour des tropiques

Revue Medicale Suisse

Volumn 5, Issue 202, 2009, Pages 1016-1021

  Bottieau, E ^a   Van Gompel, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMEBIASIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; LABORATORY TEST; MORBIDITY; PARASITISM; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCREENING; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TRAVEL; TROPICS; TUBERCULOSIS;

AMEBIASIS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS; TRAVEL; TROPICAL CLIMATE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 67049171474     PISSN: 16609379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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