Plague

British Medical Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 625-633

  Titball, Richard W ^a   Leary, Sophie E C ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; PLAGUE VACCINE; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANIMAL DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INDIA; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0031784035     PISSN: 00071420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a011715     Document Type: Review

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