Epidemiology of infectious and non-infectious disease: some comparisons.
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At the start, I would like to express my feeling of tremendous honor and pleasure at having been selected by the Council of the Epidemiology Section to deliver the first Wade Hampton Frost lecture. To whatever extent my epidemiological work has been responsible for this, certainly this honor must be shared with my colleagues, many of whom are among you in the audience and with whom I have collaborated on many studies, Alexander D. Langmuir, Warren Winkelstein, Jr., Milton Terris, Leonard M. Schuman, Philip E. Sartwell, to name a
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عنوان ژورنال:
- American journal of epidemiology
دوره 97 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1973