Filariasis in travelers presenting to the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network.

• Main Authors: Ettie M Lipner (Author), Melissa A Law (Author), Elizabeth Barnett (Author), Jay S Keystone (Author), Frank von Sonnenburg (Author), Louis Loutan (Author), D Rebecca Prevots (Author), Amy D Klion (Author), Thomas B Nutman (Author), GeoSentinel Surveillance Network (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2007-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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As international travel increases, there is rising exposure to many pathogens not traditionally encountered in the resource-rich countries of the world. Filarial infections, a great problem throughout the tropics and subtropics, are relatively rare among travelers even to filaria-endemic regions of...