Insights into infectious disease in the era of Hippocrates

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 347-350

  Pappas, Georgios ^a,b   Kiriaze, Ismene J ^a,c   Falagas, Matthew E ^a,d  

^a ALFA INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AIBS   (Greece)

^b Institute of Continuing Medical Education of Ioannina   (Greece)

^c HELLENIC AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancient Greece; History; Hygiene; Infections; Medical ethics

Indexed keywords

ANCIENT GREECE; CHOLERA; CLUBFOOT; DIARRHEA; DIPHTHERIA; DRACUNCULUS MEDINENSIS; GAS GANGRENE; GREECE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HORSE DISEASE; HYGIENE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION; INFLUENZA; JAUNDICE; LEPROSY; LUNG HYDATID CYST; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENINGITIS; PARASITOSIS; PAROTITIS; PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS; PLAGUE; POLIOMYELITIS; PUERPERAL INFECTION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RICKETTSIOSIS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SHORT SURVEY; TONSILLITIS; TYPHUS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; WRITING;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 44649178888     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2007.11.003     Document Type: Short Survey

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