"Winged sponges": Houseflies as carriers of typhoid fever in 19th- and early 20th-century military camps

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 52-63

  Cirillo, Vincent J ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARMY; CONTAMINATION; CONTROL SYSTEM; EPIDEMIC; EXPERIENCE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HOUSE FLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SOLDIER; TYPHOID FEVER; VECTOR CONTROL;

ANIMALS; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOUSEFLIES; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MILITARY MEDICINE; SALMONELLA TYPHI; TYPHOID FEVER; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; MUSCA DOMESTICA;

EID: 32444436259     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pbm.2006.0005     Document Type: Review

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