Imported Infectious Disease and Purpose of Travel, Switzerland

Travelers who visited friends or relatives were more likely to receive a diagnosis of malaria or viral hepatitis than those who traveled for other reasons.

• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Emerging Infectious Diseases

• Publication date

  2007-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3201/eid1302.060847PMID 17479882PMCID 2725840
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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