Communicable disease among displaced Afghans: Refuge without shelter

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 609-614

  Rajabali, Alefiyah ^a   Moin, Omer ^a   Ansari, Amna S ^a   Khanani, Mohammad R ^b   Ali, Syed H ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b DOW UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMMUNITY CARE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH STATUS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; LEISHMANIASIS; MALARIA; PAKISTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUGEE; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SEROPREVALENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

AFGHANISTAN; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; IRAN; PAKISTAN; REFUGEES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 67651235946     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2176     Document Type: Article

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