In memory of Patrick Manson, founding father of tropical medicine and the discovery of vector-borne infections
Patrick Manson, a clinician-scientist serving in China (1866–1889), discovered that many tropical infectious diseases require a vector peculiar to warm climate for person to person transmission. He demonstrated the nocturnal periodicity of microfilariae in the blood of patients with elephantiasis. T...
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| Format: | Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2012-07-01
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| Col·lecció: | Emerging Microbes and Infections |
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1038/emi.2012.32 |
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