Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 7, Issue 5 , Pages 278-283 , September 2009

A travel medicine view of dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever

  • Eyal Meltzer

      Affiliations

    • The Center for Geographic Medicine and Department of Medicine C, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer 52621 Israel
    • Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Eyal Meltzer, The Center for Geographic Medicine and Department of Medicine C, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer 52621 Israel. Tel.: +972 54 4728552; fax: +972 3 5303501.
    • ,
  • Eli Schwartz

      Affiliations

    • The Center for Geographic Medicine and Department of Medicine C, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer 52621 Israel
    • Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Eli Schwartz, The Center for Geographic Medicine and Department of Medicine C, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer 52621 Israel. Tel.: +972 52 6666132; fax: +972 3 5302011.

Received 19 April 2009 ,Accepted 6 May 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2009.05.002

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 7, Issue 5 , Pages 278-283 , September 2009

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