The major infectious epidemic diseases of Civil War soldiers

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 293-309

  Bollet, Alfred Jay ^a,b,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERCUROUS CHLORIDE; OPIATE; SMALLPOX VACCINE; TURPENTINE;

BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CHOLERA; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DYSENTERY; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFECTION; JAUNDICE; MALARIA; MEASLES; MEDICAL RECORD; MENINGITIS; MENINGOCOCCEMIA; MORBIDITY; MUMPS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SMALLPOX; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS; TYPHOID FEVER; VIRUS HEPATITIS; WAR; YELLOW FEVER;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; UNITED STATES; WAR;

EID: 2442585707     PISSN: 08915520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.idc.2004.01.008     Document Type: Review

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