Pretravel preparation and travel-related morbidity in patients with inflammatory bowel disease

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2079-2085

  Soonawala, Darius ^a   Van Eggermond, Anna M ^a   Fidder, Herma ^b   Visser, Leo G ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

inflammatory bowel disease; travel; vaccination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENTERITIS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEPATITIS A; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF CARE; TRAVEL; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VACCINATION;

ADULT; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MORBIDITY; NETHERLANDS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAVEL;

EID: 84867571430     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: 15364844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ibd.22903     Document Type: Article

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