Viewpoint: Filovirus haemorrhagic fever outbreaks: Much ado about nothing?

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 318-324

  Borchert, Matthias ^a,b   Boelaert, M ^a   Sleurs, H ^b   Muyembe Tamfum, J J ^c   Pirard, P ^b   Colebunders, R ^a,b   Van Der Stuyft, P ^a   Van Der Groen, G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Belgium)

^c Institut National de Recherche Bio Medicale   (Congo)

Author keywords

Emerging infectious diseases, filovirus haemorrhagic fever, public health

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TREATMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; VIRAL DISEASE;

ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EBOLA VIRUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FATALITY; FILOVIRIDAE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARBURG VIRUS;

CONGO; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MARBURG VIRUS DISEASE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO;

EID: 0034044744     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2000.00556.x     Document Type: Article

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