Germs, Dr. Billings, and the theory of focal infection

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 627-633

  Gibbons, Robert V ^a  

^a MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFECTION; PHILOSOPHY; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIOLOGY; FOCAL INFECTION; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032160985     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/514705     Document Type: Article

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