Exotic imported travel-related infections in Japan

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 106-108

  Maeda, Takuya ^a   Kawana, Akihiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Emerging disease; Pandemic; Schistosomiasis; Travel medicine; Trichinellosis

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMPORIATRICS; HUMAN; JAPAN; JAPANESE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PANDEMIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAW FOOD; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TRAVEL; TRICHINOSIS;

EID: 79958849565     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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