Infectious diseases in ancient Egypt

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-27

  Brier, Bob ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGING; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL MEDICINE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EGYPT; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; INFECTION; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); LUNG; MALARIA; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MICROSCOPY; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PARASITE; PARASITOSIS; PEST ORGANISM; PLASMODIUM; REVIEW; SALIVA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SKELETON; SOFT TISSUE; SPINE; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL RATE; SWAMP; TREMATODE; TUBERCULOSIS; VERTEBRA BODY; X RAY FILM;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EGYPT; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PARASITIC DISEASES;

EID: 1842738557     PISSN: 08915520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-5520(03)00097-7     Document Type: Review

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