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Principles of Epidemiology
Author(s) -
Akhilesh Bhargava
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1965.tb72123.x
Subject(s) - epidemiology , medicine , gerontology , library science , family medicine , computer science
Pellagra is the disease which students learn is characterized by dermatitis, diarrhoea and dementia. In the southern States of the U.S.A. at the beginning of the twentieth century, it was endemic in mental and prison institutions, and in the poor people living in the cotton-growing districts and villages of the Mississippi and its tributaries. It showed a marked tendency to recur in epidemics during the spring and early summer.