Microbes, infectious diseases and the causal relationship that links them
A short revision course in tropical medicine & travel health.
Part 2 of the neglected bacterial diseases unit for the FACTM pt 1
Some of the best descriptions of infectious diseases come from before the antibiotic era. Tropical infectious diseases are no exception, and where better to go than Manson-Bahr’s Synopsis of Tropical Medicine?
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