Surveillance of travel-associated gastrointestinal infections in Norway, 2009-2010: Are they all actually imported?

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 17, Issue 41, 2012, Pages

  Guzman Herrador, B ^a,b   Vold, L ^a   Nygard, K ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

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EID: 84868132811     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
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