Screening practices for infectious diseases among burmese refugees in Australia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1769-1772

  Chaves, Nadia J ^a   Gibney, Katherine B ^a   Leder, Karin ^a,b   O'Brien, Daniel P ^a,c   Marshall, Caroline ^a,d   Biggs, Beverley Ann ^a,d  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; INFECTION; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; REFUGEE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TUBERCULOSIS; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MYANMAR; PARASITIC DISEASES; REFUGEES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VICTORIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350452975     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1511.090777     Document Type: Article

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