Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser: Discoverer of the cause of gonorrhea

Seminars in Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 336-341

  Ligon, B Lee ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; INFECTION; LEPROSY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; REVIEW; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SKIN DISEASE; SYPHILIS;

EID: 26444469947     PISSN: 10451870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.spid.2005.07.001     Document Type: Editorial

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