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Osler and the Infected Letter

The spread of infectious agents through the mail has concerned public health officials for 5 centuries. The dissemination of anthrax spores in the US mail in 2001 was a recent example. In 1901, two medical journals reported outbreaks of smallpox presumably introduced by letters contaminated with var...

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Autor principal: Ambrose, Charles T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3320382/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15890120
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1105.040616