Digitizing historical plague

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1586-1588

  Büntgen, Ulf ^a,b   Ginzler, Christian ^a   Jan, Esper ^c   Tegel, Willy ^d   McMichael, Anthony J ^e  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e The Australian National University   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIA; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; FLEA; FOREST; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PANDEMIC; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SOCIOECONOMICS; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; PLAGUE;

EID: 84869062183     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis723     Document Type: Letter

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