Imported and non-imported diseases in the immigrant population. A decade of experience from an infectious diseases unit;Enfermedades importadas y no importadas en la población inmigrante. Una década de experiencia desde una unidad de enfermedades infecciosas

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 185-192

  Ramos, José Manuel ^a,b   Masiá, Mar ^a,b   Padilla, Sergio ^a,b   Escolano, Clara ^a,b   Bernal, Enrique ^c   Gutiérrez, Félix ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ELCHE   (Spain)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO REINA SOFÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Eosinophilia; Immigrants; Infectious diseases; Migrants; Tuberculosis; Viral hepatitis

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONSULTATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EASTERN EUROPE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE; IMMIGRANT; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; ASIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFECTIOUS DISEASE MEDICINE; LATIN AMERICA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITIC DISEASES; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SPAIN; TROPICAL MEDICINE; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952990894     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: 15781852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eimc.2010.11.011     Document Type: Article

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