Travelling to India for the Delhi XIX commonwealth games 2010

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 129-138

  Shaw, Marc T M ^a,b,c   Leggat, Peter A ^a   Chatterjee, Santanu ^d  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Worldwise Travellers Health Centres of New Zealand   (New Zealand)

^c Travel Health Consultant   (New Zealand)

^d Wellelsley Medicentre   (India)

Author keywords

Commonwealth Games; Delhi; Health; India; Safety; Travel

Indexed keywords

ATOVAQUONE; DOXYCYCLINE; MEASLES VACCINE; MEFLOQUINE; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE;

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; AIR POLLUTION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATHLETE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CHOLERA; CLIMATE; CONSULTATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; DEHYDRATION; DENGUE; DIPHTHERIA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FILARIASIS; GIARDIASIS; GOVERNMENT; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INDIA; INSECT BITE; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS; LEISHMANIASIS; LEPROSY; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LYME DISEASE; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; MEDICAL CARE; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MUMPS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN; PLAGUE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES; RUBELLA; RURAL POPULATION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HEALTH; SHIGELLA; SPORTING EVENT; SUNBURN; TETANUS; TRAVEL; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; URBAN AREA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; YELLOW FEVER; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EMPORIATRICS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FOOD POISONING; HEALTH EDUCATION; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SPORT;

AIR POLLUTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; INDIA; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SPORTS; TRAVEL; TRAVEL MEDICINE;

EID: 77957277198     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2010.04.007     Document Type: Article

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