The English sweating sickness, 1485 to 1551

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 336, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 580-582

  Thwaites, Guy ^a   Taviner, Mark ^b   Gant, Vanya ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; MYALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SWEATING; VIRUS INFECTION;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENGLAND; HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDROME; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HUMANS; SWEATING SICKNESS;

EID: 0031050399     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199702203360812     Document Type: Review

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