How Charles Nicolle of the Pasteur Institute discovered that epidemic typhus is transmitted by lice: reminiscences from my years at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
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How Charles Nicolle of the Pasteur Institute discovered that epidemic typhus is transmitted by lice: reminiscences from my years at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
Until the first decade of this century, our information about epidemic, i.e., exanthematic typhus was rather scarce. We knew only that there existed a very dangerous, easily communicable disease, which decimated populations during wars, hunger, or flood, spreading with great speed and affecting large numbers of people. After World War I, 20-30 million people died in Eastern Europe from this dis...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.93.20.10539