Malaria in Laconia, Greece, then and now: A 2500-year-old pattern

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kousoulis, Antonis A ^a,b   Chatzigeorgiou, Kalliopi Stavroula ^a,b   Danis, Kostas ^c   Tsoucalas, Gregory ^a   Vakalis, Nikos ^d   Bonovas, Stefanos ^c   Tsiodras, Sotirios ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b Society of Junior Doctors   (Greece)

^c Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

^d NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

Author keywords

Comparative history of medicine; Epidemics; Greece; Laconia; Malaria

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES; AUTUMN; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GREECE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MALARIA; MARSH; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; RELAPSE; REMISSION; RISK FACTOR; SHORT SURVEY; SUMMER; SWAMP;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GREECE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; PERIODICITY; PLASMODIUM; RISK FACTORS; WETLANDS;

EID: 84872269256     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: 18783511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2012.09.013     Document Type: Short Survey

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