Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 8, Issue 2 , Pages 96-103 , March 2010

Air Travel and TB: An airline perspective

  • Nigel P. Dowdall

      Affiliations

    • British Airways plc, Waterside (HMAG), PO Box 365, Harmondsworth, UB7 0GB, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 20 8738 7700; fax: +44 20 8738 7774.
    • Permanent address: Brambles, Cox Green, Rudgwick, Horsham, West Sussex, RH12 3DE, UK.
  • ,
  • Anthony D. Evans

      Affiliations

    • Aviation Medicine Section, International Civil Aviation Organization, 999 University Street, Montréal, Quebec H3C 5H7, Canada
  • ,
  • Claude Thibeault

      Affiliations

    • International Air Transport Association, 800 Place Victoria, PO Box 113, Montreal, Quebec H4Z 1M1, Canada

Received 22 February 2010 ,Accepted 23 February 2010.

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PII: S1477-8939(10)00032-3

doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2010.02.006

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 8, Issue 2 , Pages 96-103 , March 2010