Environmental determinants of infectious and parasitic diseases
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Environmental determinants of infectious and parasitic diseases.
A review of the role of the environment as a determinant of infectious and parasitic diseases is presented. Historical considerations and the several environmental classifications of diseases are introduced. In a broader perspective the subject is analyzed in view of the emergence of the environmental health area, with its new paradigms. A review of epidemiological studies about environmental s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0074-0276
DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02761998000700002