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Kuru--epidemiology

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

D. Carleton Gajdusek Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 565
Abstract

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his discovery of kuru, was a pediatrician, virologist and chemist whose research focused on growth, development and disease in primitive and isolated populations.

Dates: 1918-2009
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections