Acute viral hepatitis in the United States-Mexico border region: Data from the border infectious disease surveillance (BIDS) project, 2000-2009

Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 390-397

  Spradling, Philip R ^a   Xing, Jian ^a   Phippard, Alba ^b   Fonseca Ford, Maureen ^b   Montiel, Sonia ^b   Guzmán, Norma Luna ^c   Campuzano, Roberto Vázquez ^d   Vaughan, Gilberto ^a   Xia, Guo Liang ^a   Drobeniuc, Jan ^a   Kamili, Saleem ^a   Cortés Alcalá, Ricardo ^c   Waterman, Stephen H ^b  

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

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

^c General Directorate of Epidemiology   (Mexico)

^d National Institute for Epidemiologic Diagnosis and Reference   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Acute viral hepatitis; Border; Mexico; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; VIRUS HEPATITIS; YOUNG ADULT; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84882891377     PISSN: 15571912     EISSN: 15571920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10903-012-9604-8     Document Type: Article

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