Patterns of illness in travelers visiting Mexico and Central America: The GeoSentinel Experience

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 523-531

  Flores Figueroa, Jose ^a   Okhuysen, Pablo C ^a,b,c   Von Sonnenburg, Frank ^d   Dupont, Herbert L ^a,b,c,e   Libman, Michael D ^f   Keystone, Jay S ^g   Hale, Devon C ^h   Burchard, Gerd ⁱ   Han, Pauline V ^j   Wilder Smith, Annelies ^k   Freedman, David O ^l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

ⁱ BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^j CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^l University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; EMPORIATRICS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; GUATEMALA; HONDURAS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MEXICO; MORBIDITY; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SKIN DISEASE; TRAVEL; VIRUS STRAIN;

ADULT; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENGUE; DIARRHEA; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SKIN DISEASES; TRAVEL;

EID: 80052253623     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir468     Document Type: Article

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