Bubonic plague in the Southwestern United States: A review of recent experience1

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 1970, Pages 465-486

  Reed, William P ^a   Palmer, Darwin L ^a   Williams, Ralph C ^a   Kisch, Alexander L ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ANIMAL; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; CHILD; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; FLEA; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MALE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLAGUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVIEW; RODENT; SCIURIDAE; SYPHILIS; TULAREMIA; UNITED STATES; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; CAT-SCRATCH DISEASE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FEVER; FLEAS; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INSECT VECTORS; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEW MEXICO; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLAGUE; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; STREPTOMYCIN; SYPHILIS; TETRACYCLINE; TULAREMIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0014869792     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005792-197011000-00002     Document Type: Article

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