Syrian refugees and infectious disease challenges

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 443-444

  Leblebicioglu, Hakan ^a   Ozaras, Resat ^b  

^a ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CHOLERA; DISEASE ERADICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; ENTEROVIRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GIARDIA; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEPATITIS A; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; LEISHMANIASIS; MALARIA; MASS SCREENING; MEASLES; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUGEE; REFUGEE CAMP; SCABIES; SCREENING TEST; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SYRIAN; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; REFUGEES; SYRIA;

EID: 84983567866     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2015.11.007     Document Type: Editorial

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