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Mary Mallon (1869-1938) and the history of typhoid fever

Mary Mallon was born in 1869 in Ireland and emigrated to the US in 1884. She had worked in a variety of domestic positions for wealthy families prior to settling into her career as a cook. As a healthy carrier of Salmonella typhi her nickname of “Typhoid Mary” had become synonymous with the spread o...

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Autores principales: Marineli, Filio, Tsoucalas, Gregory, Karamanou, Marianna, Androutsos, George
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hellenic Society of Gastroenterology 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3959940/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24714738