Evaluating a sick child after travel to developing countries

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 704-713

  Tolle, Michael A ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Family health; International health; Pediatrics; Travel medicine; Tropical medicine

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; CUTANEOUS LARVA MIGRANS; DENGUE; DIARRHEA; EMPORIATRICS; EOSINOPHILIA; FAMILY HEALTH; FEVER; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALARIA; MYIASIS; OTITIS MEDIA; PHARYNGITIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA AFRICAE; RICKETTSIOSIS; SCABIES; SINUSITIS; TROPICAL MEDICINE; TYPHOID FEVER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YELLOW FEVER;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; HUMANS; INFANT; PARASITIC DISEASES; TRAVEL; TRAVEL MEDICINE; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

EID: 78649825825     PISSN: 15572625     EISSN: 15587118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2010.06.090271     Document Type: Review

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