Dengue fever in Czech travellers: A 10-year retrospective study in a tertiary care centre

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 32-38

  Trojánek, Milan ^a,b   Maixner, Jan ^c   Sojková, Naděžda ^c   Kynčl, Jan ^a,c   Roháčová, Hana ^a,b   Marešová, Vilma ^a,b   Stejskal, František ^a,b,d  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BULOVKA   (Czech Republic)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

^d REGIONAL HOSPITAL LIBEREC   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Arthropod borne viruses; Dengue; Fever; Travel acquired infections; Travellers

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; VIRUS RNA;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; COUGHING; CZECH REPUBLIC; DENGUE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; DYSGEUSIA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RASH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TRAVEL; VOMITING; ACUTE DISEASE; ASIA; HOSPITALIZATION; TIME FACTOR; VIROLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ASIA; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; CZECH REPUBLIC; DENGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL;

EID: 84959867076     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2015.06.005     Document Type: Article

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