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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Microbial diseases and products that shaped world history

İpek Kurtböke
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University of the Sunshine Coast
Maroochydore DC
Qld 4558, Australia
Email: IKurtbok@usc.edu.au

Microbiology Australia 35(3) 119-120 https://doi.org/10.1071/MA14041
Published: 9 September 2014

Abstract

Typhus, with its brothers and sisters: plague, cholera, typhoid, dysentery, has decided more campaigns than Caesar, Hannibal, Napoleon and all the inspector generals of history. Hans Zinsser 19351,2


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[4]  http://www.atam.gov.tr/duyurular/devrim-ve-turk-devrimleri

[5]  Millington, O. (2011) Leishmania as a re-emerging pathogen. Microbiology Today 38, 30–33.