Incidence, risk factors and treatment of diarrhoea among Dutch travellers: Reasons not to routinely prescribe antibiotics

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Belderok, Sanne Meike ^a,b   van den Hoek, Anneke ^a,b   Kint, Joan A ^a   Schim van der Loeff, Maarten F ^a,b   Sonder, Gerard J B ^a,b,c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c National Coordination Centre for Traveler's Health Advice LCR   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; LOPERAMIDE; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SELF MEDICATION; SEX; SOUTH AMERICA; TOURISM; TRAVEL; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; TROPICS; ADOLESCENT; DIARRHEA; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054999157     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-11-295     Document Type: Article

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