Travelers as a sentinel population: Use of sentinel networks to inform pretravel and posttravel evaluation

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 51-58

  Leder, Karin ^a,b  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DENGUE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SURVEY; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALARIA; MASS COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORBIDITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TRAVEL; TREND STUDY;

EID: 67649403404     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-009-0008-4     Document Type: Review

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