Importation and Transmission of Parasitic and Other Infectious Diseases Associated with International Adoptees and Refugees Immigrating into the United States of America

BioMed Research International

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Smith Darr, Jordan ^a   Conn, David Bruce ^a,b  

^a BERRY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALAMUTHIA INFECTION; CHAGAS DISEASE; ECTOPARASITE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; GIARDIASIS; HELMINTH; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMUNE STATUS; INTESTINE PARASITE; MALARIA; MEASLES; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITOSIS; PERTUSSIS; REFUGEE; REVIEW; SYPHILIS; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIGRATION; PARASITOLOGY; TRANSMISSION;

HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; INFECTION; REFUGEES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84947474637     PISSN: 23146133     EISSN: 23146141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/763715     Document Type: Review

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