The major epidemic infections: A gift from the old world to the new?

Panminerva Medica

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 78-84

  Sessa, R ^a   Palagiano, C ^a   Scifoni, M G ^a   Di Pietro, M ^a   Del Piano, M ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

16th cent; Epidemiology history; History of medicine; Infection epidemiology

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; HISTORY; HUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EUROPE; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 0033094026     PISSN: 00310808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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