The Clinical Pathology of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever

Reviews of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue , 1989, Pages 794-800

  Swanepoel, R ^a   Gill, D E ^a   Shepherd, A J ^a   Leman, P A ^a   Mynhardt, J H ^a   Harvey, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; CROSS INFECTION; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; NAMIBIA; SOUTH AFRICA; TANZANIA; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER;

ANIMAL; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; CROSS INFECTION; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; HUMAN; MALE; NAMIBIA; PLATELET COUNT; SOUTH AFRICA; TANZANIA;

EID: 0024672908     PISSN: 01620886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/11.Supplement_4.S794     Document Type: Article

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