Re-emerging of infections in urban India - Focus leptospirosis

Journal of Association of Physicians of India

Volumn 51, Issue MAR, 2003, Pages 247-248

  Kamath, Sandhya A ^b   Joshi, Shashank R ^a  

^a BYL Nair Hospital   (India)

^b SIR J J GROUP OF HOSPITALS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INDIA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

HUMANS; INDIA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; RECURRENCE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0038487841     PISSN: 00045772     EISSN: 00045772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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