Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 8, Issue 1 , Pages 41-46 , January 2010

Diseases and injuries associated with travel among students, employees and teachers of the Central University of Venezuela during the national summer vacations

  • Alejandro Risquez

      Affiliations

    • Division of Public Health, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
    • ,
  • Aiskel Marrero

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine Luis Razetti, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
    • ,
  • Niurka Naranjo

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine Luis Razetti, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
    • ,
  • Yanine Palacios

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine Luis Razetti, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
    • ,
  • Maria T. Rossomando

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine Luis Razetti, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
    • ,
  • Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales

      Affiliations

    • Division of Public Health, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
    • Tropical Medicine Institute, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
    • Instituto Experimental Jose Witremundo Torrealba, Universidad de Los Andes, Trujillo, Venezuela
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Tropical Medicine Institute, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela. Tel.: +58 416 826 9482; fax: +58 212 605 3647.

Received 2 May 2009 ,Revised 26 October 2009 ,Accepted 27 October 2009.

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☆ This paper was presented previously in part as a poster at the 1st Latin American Congress of Travel Medicine (SLAMVI), Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 10–11, 2008 (Poster Presentation No. 22711).

PII: S1477-8939(09)00155-0

doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2009.10.004

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
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