Expatriates ill after travel: Results from the Geosentinel Surveillance Network

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Lim, Poh Lian ^a   Han, Pauline ^b   Chen, Lin H ^c,d   MacDonald, Susan ^e   Pandey, Prativa ^f   Hale, DeVon ^g   Schlagenhauf, Patricia ^h   Loutan, Louis ⁱ   Wilder Smith, Annelies ^j   Davis, Xiaohong M ^b   Freedman, David O ^k  

^a TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e University Hospital of Northern British Columbia   (Canada)

^f CIWEC Clinic Travel Medicine Center   (Nepal)

^g UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^j UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^k University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

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Author keywords

Expatriate; GeoSentinel; Malaria; Travelers

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; AMEBIASIS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASIA; BRUCELLOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DENGUE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GIARDIASIS; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS E; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MONONUCLEOSIS; MORBIDITY; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SKIN DISEASE; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TRAVEL; VOLUNTARY WORKER;

ADULT; AGED; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871698151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-386     Document Type: Article

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