Endemic Typhus
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Endemic Typhus in Mysore
Hans Zinsser's book Rats, Lice and History has depicted impressively the important role typhus in the cultural evolution of the human race. The epidemic form of the disease has even changed the history of nations. ^ certain uniformity in the symptomatology has pen established in the louse-borne epidemic j;0rm as a contrast to the numerous endemic forms. The manifestation of the tsutsugamushi ;^...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health
سال: 1934
ISSN: 0002-9572
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.24.10.1068