TY - JOUR KW - Serbia KW - Plague KW - Medieval KW - leprosy KW - History KW - Communicable Diseases AU - Petruševski AB AB - For centuries branded as enigma infectious diseases are as for the common man, and the scientific community, the largest item of interest. Their contagiousness, number, as well as increasing diversity, led to the appearance of enormous challenges in finding the cause for a more effective control. Mass infectious diseases such as leprosy and plague were witnesses and causes of horrific suffering throughout the ages. The valuable data available to us, recorded by the physicians and historians, are the best proof of undisputed reign of illness that marked the old and middle ages. BT - Vojnosanitetski Pregled C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23984623 CN - PETRUSEVSKI 2013 DO - 10.2298/VSP1307706P IS - 7 J2 - Vojnosanit Pregl LA - eng N2 - For centuries branded as enigma infectious diseases are as for the common man, and the scientific community, the largest item of interest. Their contagiousness, number, as well as increasing diversity, led to the appearance of enormous challenges in finding the cause for a more effective control. Mass infectious diseases such as leprosy and plague were witnesses and causes of horrific suffering throughout the ages. The valuable data available to us, recorded by the physicians and historians, are the best proof of undisputed reign of illness that marked the old and middle ages. PY - 2013 EP - 704–708 T2 - Vojnosanitetski Pregled TI - History of infectious diseases development in the old and the Middle Ages with the emphasis on the plague and leprosy TT - Istorijat infektivnih bolesti u starom i srednjem veku sa osvrtom na kugu i lepru UR - http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0042-8450/2013/0042-84501307704P.pdf VL - 70 ER -