Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 7, Issue 5 , Pages 296-300 , September 2009

Travel-related health problems in Japanese travelers

  • Yasutaka Mizuno

      Affiliations

    • Disease Control and Prevention Center, International Medical Center of Japan, 162-8655 Tokyo, Japan
    • Embassy of Japan in Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Current address: 1-21-1, Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8655, Japan. Tel.: +81 3 3202 7181; fax: +81 3 3202 1012.
    • ,
  • Koichiro Kudo

      Affiliations

    • Disease Control and Prevention Center, International Medical Center of Japan, 162-8655 Tokyo, Japan

Received 24 October 2008 ,Revised 27 February 2009 ,Accepted 2 March 2009.

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PII: S1477-8939(09)00052-0

doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2009.03.002

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 7, Issue 5 , Pages 296-300 , September 2009

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