Screening of imported infectious diseases among asymptomatic Sub-Saharan African and Latin American immigrants: A public health challenge

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 848-856

  Monge Maillo, Begoña ^a   López Vélez, Rogelio ^a   Norman, Francesca F ^a   Ferrere González, Federico ^a   Martínez Pérez, Ángela ^a   Pérez Molina, José Antonio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONSULTATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMIGRANT; INTESTINE PARASITE; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCREENING; SYPHILIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; ETHNOLOGY; HIV INFECTIONS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALARIA; MASS SCREENING; MIGRANT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SPAIN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CHAGAS DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; LATIN AMERICA; MALARIA; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SPAIN; SYPHILIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926321620     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: 14761645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0520     Document Type: Article

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