Editorial: Travelling to South Africa for the 2010 FIFA World Cup

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 74-78

  Leggat, Peter A ^a,b   Shaw, Marc T M ^a,c   Toovey, Stephen ^d,e  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c Auckland University of Technology High Performance Sport New Zealand   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e Pegasus Research   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Infectious diseases; Soccer; South Africa; Travel health; World Cup

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; SOUTH AFRICA; SPORT; TRAVEL; VACCINATION;

ANNIVERSARIES AND SPECIAL EVENTS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; SOCCER; SOUTH AFRICA; TRAVEL; VACCINATION;

EID: 77955868212     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2010.03.005     Document Type: Editorial

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