The Grand Challenge of Microbiology: To Know Better, Protect, Utilize and Celebrate the Unseen Majority on Our Planet
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Report on the Origin and Spread of Typhoid Fever in U. S. Military Camps During the Spanish War of 1898. Washington: US Government Printing
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