Multicenter EuroTravNet/GeoSentinel study of travel-related infectious diseases in Europe

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1783-1790

  Gautret, Philippe ^a   Schlagenhauf, Patricia ^b   Gaudart, Jean ^c   Castelli, Francesco ^d   Brouqui, Philippe ^a   Von Sonnenburg, Frank ^e   Loutan, Louis ^f   Parola, Philippe ^a  

^a ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE MARSEILLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; AMOEBA; ARTICLE; ASIA; BRAIN INFECTION; CAMPYLOBACTER; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; CHILD; CLINICAL MEDICINE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTANEOUS LARVA MIGRANS; DATA ANALYSIS; DENGUE; EUROPE; FEMALE; FEVER; FRANCE; FRIEND; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GERMANY; GIARDIA; HEALTH; HUMAN; INDIAN OCEAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; ITALY; LEISHMANIASIS; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MYIASIS; NEWBORN; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE INFECTION; PLASMODIUM OVALE MALARIA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; POPULATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RABIES; RELATIVE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RICKETTSIOSIS; SALMONELLOSIS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SHIGELLA; SKIN DISEASE; TOURISM; TRAVEL; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DENGUE; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYNDROME; TRAVEL; TRAVEL MEDICINE; WORLD HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350465327     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1511.091147     Document Type: Article

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