Travel, migration and neglected tropical diseases

Neglected Tropical Diseases and Conditions of the Nervous System

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 21-43

  Bisoffi, Zeno ^a   Buonfrate, Dora ^a   Angheben, Andrea ^a  

^a SACRO CUORE DON CALABRIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dengue; Filariasis; Loiasis; Migrant health; Poverty related diseases; Strongyloidiasis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948145756     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8100-3_2     Document Type: Chapter

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