Daily newspaper view of dengue fever epidemic, Athens, Greece, 1927-1931

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 78-82

  Louis, Christos ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ARTICLE; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS 1; DENGUE VIRUS 2; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; GREECE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; SUMMER;

AEDES; ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DENGUE; EPIDEMICS; GREECE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; NEWSPAPERS;

EID: 84856587404     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1801.110191     Document Type: Article

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