Outbreak of tungiasis following a trip to Ethiopia

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 220-223

  Grupper, M ^a   Potasman, I ^a  

^a BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Outbreak; Travel; Tungiasis

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSECT BITE; MALE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF EVALUATION; SKIN DEFECT; TELECONSULTATION; TUNGIASIS;

AGED; ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAVEL; TRAVEL MEDICINE; TUNGA; TUNGIASIS;

EID: 84870433471     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2012.09.002     Document Type: Article

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