The eradication of smallpox, a success story for modern medicine and public health: What lessons for the future?

Eugenia Tognotti

doi:10.3855/jidc.1204

The eradication of smallpox, a success story for modern medicine and public health: What lessons for the future?

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Eugenia Tognotti Medical School Department of Biomedical Sciences University of Sassari

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https://doi.org/10.3855/jidc.1204

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Small Pox, Eradication, Lessons

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Eugenia Tognotti, Medical School Department of Biomedical Sciences University of Sassari

Department of Biomedical Sciences

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2010-05-15

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Tognotti E (2010) The eradication of smallpox, a success story for modern medicine and public health: What lessons for the future?. J Infect Dev Ctries 4:264–266. doi: 10.3855/jidc.1204

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Vol. 4 No. 05: May 2010

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