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Parasitic Diseases as the Cause of Death of Prisoners of War during the Korean War (1950-1953)

To determine the cause of death of prisoners of war during the Korean War (1950-1953), death certificates or medical records were analyzed. Out of 7,614 deaths, 5,013 (65.8%) were due to infectious diseases. Although dysentery and tuberculosis were the most common infectious diseases, parasitic dise...

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Autor principal: Huh, Sun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4096650/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25031479
http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2014.52.3.335