Coronavirus disease-2019: Is fever an adequate screening for the returning travelers?

Tropical Medicine and Health

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2020, Pages

  Bwire, George M ^a   Paulo, Linda S ^a  

^a MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

COVID 19; Fever; Returning travelers; Temperature screening

Indexed keywords

AIRPORT; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; FEVER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 85081207319     PISSN: 13488945     EISSN: 13494147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s41182-020-00201-2     Document Type: Article

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