Airport sentinel surveillance and entry quarantine for dengue infections following a fever screening program in Taiwan

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kuan, Mei Mei ^a   Chang, Feng Yee ^a,b  

^a CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic viremia; Dengue competent hotspots; Imported dengue

Indexed keywords

AIRPORT; ARTICLE; DENGUE; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; IMPORT DISEASE; INFECTION CONTROL; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; TAIWAN; TRAVEL; VIREMIA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AIRPORTS; DENGUE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; QUARANTINE; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; TAIWAN; TRAVEL MEDICINE;

EID: 84864517896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-182     Document Type: Article

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