Pre-travel advice seeking from GPs by travellers with chronic illness seen at a travel clinic
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Travel Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1195-1982,1708-8305
DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taw013