Paradise Locked: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in American Samoa
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Pathogenesis of the 1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus
1 Influenza Research Institute, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, 2 ERATO Infection-Induced Host Responses Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama, Japan, 3 Division of Zoonosis, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe Un...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sites: a journal of social anthropology and cultural studies
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1179-0237
DOI: 10.11157/sites-vol10iss2id215