Informal International Border Crossing, Refugee and Illegal Migrant Workers: Issue in Travel Medicine

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  • Viroj Wiwanitkit Hainan Medical University, Hainan, China|Dr DY Patil University, Pune, India|Faculty of Medicine, University of Nis, Nis, Serbia
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volume 6  issue 1

pages  34- 34

publication date 2017-11-06

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