Spectrum of imported infectious diseases among children and adolescents returning from the tropics and subtropics

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 150-157

  Herbinger, Karl Heinz ^a   Drerup, Lukas ^a   Alberer, Martin ^a   Nothdurft, Hans Dieter ^a   Sonnenburg, Frank Von ^a   Löscher, Thomas ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ADULT; AFRICA; AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; ASIA; CAMPYLOBACTER ENTERITIS; CENTRAL AFRICA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTANEOUS LARVA MIGRANS; DEMOGRAPHY; DENGUE; EASTERN EUROPE; EMPORIATRICS; FEMALE; FEVER; GERMANY; GIARDIASIS; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; INSECT BITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MONONUCLEOSIS; NEWBORN; NORTH AMERICA; OUTPATIENT CARE; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN DISEASE; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUPERINFECTED INSECT BITE; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TRAVEL; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; TROPICS; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; WEST AFRICA; WESTERN EUROPE;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FEVER; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RISK; SOUTH AMERICA; TRAVEL; TROPICAL CLIMATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860260849     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2011.00589.x     Document Type: Article

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