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Travellers' diarrhoea: does it occur in the United Kingdom?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

B. J. Freedman
B. J. Freedman
Affiliation:
King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, SE5
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Of 485 persons who replied to a questionnaire after attending a European Congress in September 1974, diarrhoea was experienced by 4 of 143 British residents and 2 of 342 visitors to the United Kingdom. This extremely low incidence of travellers' diarrhoea contrasts with the high incidence reported in travellers from countries with cool climates and north European standards of hygiene to countries where these conditions do not hold.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 79 , Issue 1 , August 1977 , pp. 73 - 75
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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