The 2014 FIFA World Cup: Communicable disease risks and advice for visitors to Brazil - A review from the Latin American Society for Travel Medicine (SLAMVI)

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 208-218

  Gallego, Viviana ^a   Berberian, Griselda ^a   Lloveras, Susana ^a,b   Verbanaz, Sergio ^a   Chaves, Tania S S ^c   Orduna, Tomas ^b   Rodriguez Morales, Alfonso J ^b,d  

^a Panel of Sports and Travel Latin American Society for Travel Medicine (SLAMVI)   (Argentina)

^b Latin American Society for Travel Medicine (SLAMVI)   (Argentina)

^c Latin American Society for Travel Medicine (SLAMVI)   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE PEREIRA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Brazil; Infectious diseases; Prevention; Travel health; World cup

Indexed keywords

YELLOW FEVER VACCINE;

AEDES AEGYPTI; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHIKUNGUNYA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONDOM USE; CUTANEOUS LARVA MIGRANS; DENGUE; EMPORIATRICS; FOOD POISONING; GIARDIASIS; HANTAVIRUS INFECTION; HEPATITIS A; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFLUENZA; LEISHMANIASIS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALARIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RICKETTSIOSIS; RISK; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEASHORE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; YELLOW FEVER; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CROWDING (AREA); GEOGRAPHY; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPORT; TRAVEL;

BRAZIL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CROWDING; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SPORTS; TRAVEL; TRAVEL MEDICINE;

EID: 84901851680     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2014.04.004     Document Type: Review

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