Hantavirus infection - Haemorrhagic fever in the Balkans - Potential nephrological hazards in the Kosovo war

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1843-1844

  Bugert, Joachim J ^b   Welzel, Tania Mara ^b   Zeier, Martin ^b   Darai, Gholamreza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HANTAVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; VIRUS INFECTION; YUGOSLAVIA;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HANTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HUMANS; KOREA; UNITED STATES; WAR; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 0032787794     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/14.8.1843     Document Type: Editorial

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