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6 Plague Today

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2012

Elisabeth Carniel
Elisabeth Carniel
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Elisabeth Carniel, MD, PhD, Institut Pasteur, Yersinia Research Unit28 rue du Dr Roux, Paris, France
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Medical History , Volume 52 , Supplement S27: Pestilential Complexities: Understanding Medieval Plague , 2008, pp. 115 - 122
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