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The fantastic laboratory of Dr Weigl: How two brave scientists battled typhus and sabotaged the Nazis [Book review]

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posted on 2018-09-13, 00:00 authored by Andrew Taylor-Robinson
During the Eastern Front campaign of World War II, both German and Russian armies, as well millions of oppressed civilians were afflicted by typhus, an appalling disease caused by the bacterium Rickettsia prowazekii and transmitted in the faeces of body lice.

History

Volume

63

Issue

3

Start Page

41

End Page

41

Number of Pages

1

ISSN

0006-3347

Publisher

School of Biological Sciences and Federico Villarreal University

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Access to this book review is provided by the Royal Society of Biology, UK

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  • Yes

Era Eligible

  • No

Journal

The Biologist

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    Keywords

    VaccineTyphusRickettsiaBiological Sciences not elsewhere classified

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