Evidence of tungiasis in pre-hispanic America

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 855-862

  Maco, Vicente ^b   Tantaleán, Manuel ^a   Gotuzzo, Eduardo ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; CERAMICS; CULTURAL PERIOD; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HUMAN; PERU; TUNGA; TUNGIASIS; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ARCHAEOLOGY; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; SOUTH AMERICA; TUNGIASIS;

EID: 79955754659     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1705.100542     Document Type: Article

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