Pre-travel health advice for human immunodeficiency virus-infected travelers, from Rio de Janeiro

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 260-263

  Igreja, Ricardo Pereira ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Human immunodeficiency virus; Rio de Janeiro; Travel medicine

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ARTEMISININ; ATOVAQUONE; ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL; BENFLUMETOL; CHLOROQUINE; DIPHTHERIA VACCINE; DOXYCYCLINE; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; LOPINAVIR; MEFLOQUINE; MENINGITIS VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; QUININE; RABIES VACCINE; RITONAVIR; TYPHOID VACCINE; YELLOW FEVER VACCINE;

ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ANGOLA; ARTICLE; ASIA; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAZIL; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIPHTHERIA; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS A; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; INFLUENZA; LEISHMANIASIS; MALARIA; MALE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PERU; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; POLIOMYELITIS; RABIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRAVEL; TYPHOID FEVER; VACCINATION; YELLOW FEVER;

ADULT; BRAZIL; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAVEL; VACCINES;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 70349296024     PISSN: 00378682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0037-86822009000300005     Document Type: Article

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