Inconvenience due to travelers' diarrhea: A prospective follow-up study

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Soonawala, Darius ^a   Vlot, Jessica A ^a   Visser, Leo G ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIMOTILITY AGENT; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENT; LOPERAMIDE; ORAL REHYDRATION SOLUTION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; DEFECATION URGENCY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG USE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAUSEA; NETHERLANDS; PRESCRIPTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SELF MEDICATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; VOMITING; ADULT; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TRAVEL;

ADULT; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRAVEL;

EID: 81255128227     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-11-322     Document Type: Article

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