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Malaria and the Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit, 1943‐1946
Author(s) -
Spencer Margaret
Publication year - 1994
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.1326-5377.1994.tb127331.x
Subject(s) - malaria , unit (ring theory) , medical unit , geography , virology , environmental health , medicine , medical emergency , immunology , psychology , mathematics education
The desperate exigencies ofwar brought into being the Army Malaria Research Unit in Cairns in 1943 ‐ their experiments placed antimalarial treatment on a scientific basis, and saved an Australian army from destruction.