Screening for imported diseases in an immigrant population: Experience from a teaching hospital in Barcelona, Spain

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1277-1281

  Bocanegra, Cristina ^a   Salvador, Fernando ^a   Sulleiro, Elena ^a   Sánchez Montalvá, Adrián ^a   Pahissa, Albert ^a   Molina, Israel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZNIDAZOLE; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGED; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; EUROPE; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMIGRANT; IMPORT DISEASE; INTESTINE INFECTION; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARASITOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SPAIN; SYPHILIS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TUBERCULOSIS; ADOLESCENT; CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84918809296     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: 14761645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0206     Document Type: Article

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