Expatriates ill after travel: Results from the Geosentinel Surveillance Network

Lim, Poh-Lian; Han, Pauline; Chen, Lin H; MacDonald, Susan; Pandey, Prativa; Hale, DeVon; Schlagenhauf, Patricia; Loutan, Louis; Wilder-Smith, Annelies; Davis, Xiaohong M; Freedman, David O

doi:10.1186/1471-2334-12-386

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Expatriates ill after travel: Results from the Geosentinel Surveillance Network

ContributorsLim, Poh-Lian; Han, Pauline; Chen, Lin H; MacDonald, Susan; Pandey, Prativa; Hale, DeVon; Schlagenhauf, Patricia; Loutan, Louis; Wilder-Smith, Annelies; Davis, Xiaohong M; Freedman, David O

Published inBMC infectious diseases, vol. 12, no. 1, 386

Publication date2012

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Expatriates are a distinct population at unique risk for health problems related to their travel exposure. METHODS: We analyzed GeoSentinel data comparing ill returned expatriates with other travelers for demographics, travel characteristics, and proportionate morbidity (PM) for travel-related illness.

Affiliation entities

Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de santé et médecine communautaires

Research groups

Groupe Louis Loutan (médecine des Voyages et des Migrations, Médecine Tropicale, Santé Internationale) (122)

Citation (ISO format)

LIM, Poh-Lian et al. Expatriates ill after travel: Results from the Geosentinel Surveillance Network. In: BMC infectious diseases, 2012, vol. 12, n° 1, p. 386. doi: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-386

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PID : unige:29949
DOI : 10.1186/1471-2334-12-386

Journal ISSN1471-2334

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