A brief history of elephantiasis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1024-

  Golzari, Samad E J ^a   Kazemi, Abolhassan ^a   Ghaffari, Alireza ^b   Ghabili, Kamyar ^c  

^a Medical Philosophy and History Research Center   (Iran)

^b Department of Internal Medicine ^*  (Iran)

^c TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEPHANTIASIS; FILARIASIS; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; LEPROSY; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ELEPHANTIASIS; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS;

EID: 84866108274     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis569     Document Type: Letter

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