Salmonellosis and charter tourism: Epidemiology and trends of imported human cases to Norway from the Canary Islands and Thailand, 1994-2008

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 140, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1655-1662

  Emberland, K E ^a   Nygard K ^a   Aavitsland, P ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Diarrhoea; salmonellosis; travellers' infection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CANARY ISLANDS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORWAY; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLOSIS; THAILAND; TOURISM; TRAVEL; TREND STUDY;

ADULT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SEASONS; SPAIN; THAILAND; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864451825     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268811002123     Document Type: Article

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