Smallpox and measles: Historical aspects and clinical differentiation

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-100

  Cunha, Burke A ^a,b  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VACCINE; SMALLPOX VACCINE;

CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; COUGHING; DELIRIUM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INSOMNIA; LONG TERM CARE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALAISE; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; PHARYNGITIS; RASH; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; RESTLESSNESS; REVACCINATION; REVIEW; RIGOR; SMALLPOX; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VACCINATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MEASLES; SMALLPOX; VACCINATION;

EID: 1842788949     PISSN: 08915520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-5520(03)00091-6     Document Type: Review

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