The malaria frontline: Pioneering malaria research by the Australian army in World War II

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 166, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 316-319

  Sweeney, Anthony W ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN ARMY MALARIA INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b SECRETARIAT OF THE PACIFIC COMMUNITY   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARMY; AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; SHORT SURVEY; UNITED STATES; WAR;

EID: 0030965625     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1997.tb122323.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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