Ebola virus : What the practitioner needs to know;Virus ebola : L'essentiel pour le praticien

Medecine Tropicale

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 177-186

  Georges, A J ^a,b   Baize, S ^a   Leroy, E M ^a   Georges Courbot, M C ^a  

^a CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉDICALES DE FRANCEVILLE   (Gabon)

^b HIA Desgenettes   (France)

Author keywords

Ebola virus; Prophylaxis; Receptivity; Transmission; Virus reservoir

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA VIRUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL PRACTITIONERS; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

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