The Role of the Traveler in Emerging Infections and Magnitude of Travel

Travel and trade have grown immensely. Travelers interact with people and microbes during their journeys, and can introduce infectious agents to new areas and populations. Studying illnesses in travelers is a source of knowledge into diseases of resource-poor regions and the control of these disease...

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Autores principales: Chen, Lin H., Wilson, Mary Elizabeth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7094659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19061759
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mcna.2008.07.005
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description Travel and trade have grown immensely. Travelers interact with people and microbes during their journeys, and can introduce infectious agents to new areas and populations. Studying illnesses in travelers is a source of knowledge into diseases of resource-poor regions and the control of these diseases. Travel-associated illnesses also serve to detect emerging infections.
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spelling pubmed-70946592020-03-25 The Role of the Traveler in Emerging Infections and Magnitude of Travel Chen, Lin H. Wilson, Mary Elizabeth Med Clin North Am Article Travel and trade have grown immensely. Travelers interact with people and microbes during their journeys, and can introduce infectious agents to new areas and populations. Studying illnesses in travelers is a source of knowledge into diseases of resource-poor regions and the control of these diseases. Travel-associated illnesses also serve to detect emerging infections. Elsevier Inc. 2008-11 2008-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7094659/ /pubmed/19061759 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mcna.2008.07.005 Text en Copyright © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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