Standardizing epidemics: Infection, inheritance and environment in prewar experimental epidemiology

Heredity and Infection: The History of Disease Transmission

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 135-179

  Amsterdamska, Olga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203378823-11     Document Type: Chapter

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