The tinea capitis campaign in Serbia in the 1950s

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 571-576

  Shvarts, Shifra ^a,b   Sevo, Goran ^d   Tasic, Marija ^d   Shani, Mordechai ^a,c   Sadetzki, Siegal ^a,c  

^a GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d The Institute for Gerontology   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; IONIZING RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SERBIA; TINEA CAPITIS;

HEALTH PROMOTION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SERBIA; TINEA CAPITIS;

EID: 77955113377     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(10)70107-9     Document Type: Review

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