Review ArticleClinical Review

Evaluating a Sick Child after Travel to Developing Countries

Michael A. Tolle
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2010, 23 (6) 704-713; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2010.06.090271

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