Toxoplasmosis as a travel risk

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 592-601

  Sepúlveda Arias, Juan C ^a,b   Gómez Marin, Jorge E ^c   Bobić, Branko ^d   Naranjo Galvis, Carlos A ^a,e   Djurković Djaković, Olgica ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE PEREIRA   (Colombia)

^b Member of the Working Group on Zoonoses of the International Society for Chemotherapy (ISC)   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DEL QUINDÍO   (Colombia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^e UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MANIZALES   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Clinical presentation; Prevention; Toxoplasmosis; Travelers; Treatment

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; FOLINIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE; PYRIMETHAMINE SULFADIAZINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BRAIN DAMAGE; CHORIORETINITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSIS; EMPORIATRICS; EYE INJURY; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFECTION RISK; LYMPHADENOPATHY; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY INFECTION; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SEROLOGY; SORE THROAT; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRAVEL; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; CAT; CAT DISEASE; FOODBORNE DISEASES; MEAT; PARASITOLOGY; PIG; RISK FACTOR; TOXOPLASMA; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MEAT; RISK FACTORS; SWINE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRAVEL;

EID: 84916937637     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2014.05.007     Document Type: Review

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