Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 14, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 630-631

Burden of tuberculosis in migrants in Honduras: Potential implications for spread of resistant mycobacteria (Letter)

Zambrano L.I. , Fuentes I. , Rodas-Ortez H. , Murillo-Padilla J.C. , Maldonado M. , Castañeda-Hernández D.M. , Rodriguez-Morales A.J.*
  • a Faculty of Medical Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
  • b Faculty of Medical Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
  • c Faculty of Medical Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
  • d Faculty of Medical Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
  • e National Program of Tuberculosis Control, Secretaría de Salud de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
  • f Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Seccional Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia
  • g Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Science, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia, Committee on Travel Medicine, Asociación Panamericana de Infectología, Panama city, Panama

Abstract

[No abstract available]

Author Keywords

Migrants tuberculosis Latin america Epidemiology Honduras

Index Keywords

South and Central America Latin America transmission Letter human travel Mycobacterium multidrug resistant tuberculosis priority journal policy nonhuman Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial Humans migrant tuberculostatic agent Honduras tuberculosis cost of illness Incidence disease transmission multidrug resistance migration microbiology world health organization antibiotic resistance Transients and Migrants airport
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85006153563&doi=10.1016%2fj.tmaid.2016.11.011&partnerID=40&md5=63d1e5e8fdde300dcd958990a3df1d19
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2016.11.011
ISSN: 14778939
Original Language: English