Travelers' Diarrhea in Children Visiting Tropical Countries |
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| Authors: | Filipe Gló ria Silva,MD, Antó nio Figueiredo,MD, Luis Varandas,MD,PhD |
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| Affiliation: | Travellers Clinic, Infectious Diseases Unit, Paediatrics Department, Central Lisbon Hospital Center, Hospital de Dona Estefânia, Lisbon, Portugal |
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| Abstract: | We studied a group of 174 Portuguese children (aged 2 mo–16 y) who mostly traveled to tropical Portuguese-speaking countries and found an attack rate of 21.8% for travelers' diarrhea, much lower than previously described. We also showed that African rate analysis by region may hide significant differences between countries. |
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