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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2012
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3630944/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26038403 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/emi.2012.32 |