Bad air, amulets and mosquitoes: 2,000 years of changing perspectives on malaria

Malaria Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hempelmann, Ernst ^a,b   Krafts, Kristine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b not available   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT EXTRACT; QUININE;

ANOPHELES; ANTIQUITY; ARTICLE; BARK; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEVER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MALARIA; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MICROSCOPY; PLASMODIUM; ANIMAL; HISTORY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE MEDICINE; MOSQUITO;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE MEDICINE; MALARIA;

EID: 84880034415     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-12-232     Document Type: Article

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