Palaeopathological Evidence of Infectious Disease in a Skeletal Population from Late Medieval Riga, Latvia (15Th-17Th Centuries AD)
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Section B. Natural, Exact, and Applied Sciences.
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1407-009X
DOI: 10.1515/prolas-2017-0001