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War on Rats: the architecture of the bubonic plague in Galveston

Leonard Kuan-Pei WangJohn Sealy School of Medicine, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TexasCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 534-538 | Received 31 Dec 2022, Accepted 04 Apr 2023, Published online: 27 Apr 2023

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