Air travel by individuals with active tuberculosis: Reporting patterns and epidemiologic characteristics, Canada 2006 2008

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 113-119

  Scholten, Derek ^a   Saunders, Andrea ^a   Dawson, Kathryn ^a   Wong, Thomas ^a   Ellis, Edward ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contact tracing; Exposure notification; Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS; TRAVEL; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRCRAFT; CANADA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRAVEL; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955888359     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2010.02.002     Document Type: Article

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