American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on May 20, 2008
American Journal of Epidemiology 2008 168(1):120-121; doi:10.1093/aje/kwn127
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Wildner and Hofman (1) had a fruitful drink at the Mariandl! However, I am still not convinced that Professor Georg Gaffky really wanted or even was able to send a weakly virulent culture of cholera bacilli to save von Pettenkofer's life.
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