A closer look at travellers' infections abroad: Finnish nationwide data with incidences, 2010 to 2012

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 15, Issue , 2017, Pages 29-36

  Siikamäki, Heli ^a,b   Kivelä, Pia ^a   Fotopoulos, Mikael ^b   Kantele, Anu ^a,c  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b International SOS   (Denmark)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Incidence; Infection; Morbidity; Respiratory infection; Travel; Traveller's diarrhoea; Vaccine preventable

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; EAR INFECTION; EMPORIATRICS; FEMALE; FINN (CITIZEN); HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION; INFLUENZA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SKIN INFECTION; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION; AFRICA; ASIA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DIARRHEA; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; FEVER; FINLAND; GASTROENTERITIS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; TRAVEL;

VACCINE;

ADULT; AFRICA; ASIA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DIARRHEA; EUROPE; FEMALE; FEVER; FINLAND; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; MORBIDITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; TRAVEL; VACCINES;

EID: 85005865133     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2016.10.007     Document Type: Article

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