Lassa fever;Lassa-Fieber

Medizinische Klinik

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 340-345

  Fleischer, Klaus ^a   Köhler, Bernd ^b   Kirchner, Armin ^b   Schmid, Jörg ^b  

^a Missionsarztliche Klinik   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Highly contagious patients: diagnosis, therapy and isolation; Lassa fever; Ribavirin; Virus related hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LASSA FEVER; LASSA VIRUS; MALARIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNDROME; TRAVEL; TROPICAL MEDICINE; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 0343526354     PISSN: 07235003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00002133     Document Type: Article

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