Mortality risk and survival in the aftermath of the medieval Black Death

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  DeWitte, Sharon N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MORTALITY; PLAGUE; POSTHUMOUS CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; UNITED KINGDOM; YERSINIA PESTIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HISTORY; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL RATE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEMETERIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPIDEMICS; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONDON; MIDDLE AGED; PLAGUE; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900534004     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096513     Document Type: Article

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