Skin disorders among travellers returning from tropical and non-tropical countries consulting a travel medicine clinic

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1457-1464

  Herbinger, K H ^a   Siess, C ^a   Nothdurft, H D ^a   von Sonnenburg, F ^a   Loscher T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cutaneous symptoms; Dermatoses; Skin disorders; Travel; Travel medicine; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BACTERIAL DISEASE; DENGUE FEVER; DISEASE INCIDENCE; FILARIASIS; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SERVICES; LEISHMANIASIS; MEDICINE; PATHOGEN; PROTOZOAN; RISK FACTOR; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SKIN DISORDER; SYMPTOM; TICK; TOURISM; TOURIST DESTINATION; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; TROPICAL REGION; VIRUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARTHROPOD DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASIA; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; CHILD; CUTANEOUS LARVA MIGRANS; DENGUE; EASTERN EUROPE; EMPORIATRICS; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; GERMANY; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INFANT; INSECT BITE; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; MYIASIS; NEWBORN; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RICKETTSIOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TICK BITE; TOURISM; TRAVEL; TUNGIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SKIN DISEASES; TRAVEL; TRAVEL MEDICINE; TROPICAL CLIMATE; YOUNG ADULT;

GERMANY;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; IXODIDA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 80053637316     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2011.02840.x     Document Type: Article

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