Measures undertaken in the German armed forces field hospital deployed in Kosovo to contain a potential outbreak of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever

Military Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 366-369

  Frangoulidis, Dimitrios ^a   Meyer, Hermann ^a  

^a BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBAVIRIN;

ARMY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DISINFECTION; EPIDEMIC; GERMANY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NURSING; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SOLDIER; TICK BITE; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 18544390815     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.170.5.366     Document Type: Review

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