Travellers' health: An epidemiological overview

Managing Tourist Health and Safety in the New Millennium

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 19-33

  Cossar, Johnathan ^a  

^a Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84949178323     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780080510798     Document Type: Chapter

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