Epidemic anthrax in the eighteenth century, the Americas

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1160-1162

  Morens, David M ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTHRAX; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HAITI; HISTORY; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; SHORT SURVEY; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 0036803036     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0810.020173     Document Type: Short Survey

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