Travelers visiting friends and relatives (VFR) and imported infectious disease: Travelers, immigrants or both? A comparative analysis

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 88-94

  Monge Maillo, B ^a   Norman, F F ^a   Perez Molina J A ^a   Navarro, M ^a   Diaz Menendez M ^a   Lopez Velez R ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Immigrants; Infectious diseases; Public health; Travel medicine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENGUE; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; FRIEND; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INFECTION; INTESTINE PARASITE; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; TRAVEL; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA;

IMMIGRANTS; INFECTIOUS DISEASES; PUBLIC HEALTH; TRAVEL MEDICINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAVEL; TRAVEL MEDICINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893783367     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2013.07.004     Document Type: Article

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