Immunoglobulin G in Ebola outbreak survivors, Gabon

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1136-1137

  Wauquier, Nadia ^a   Becquart, Pierre ^a,b   Gasquet, Clélia ^a,b   Leroy, Eric M ^a,b  

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

^b UMR 190 Pathologies Virales Emergentes   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

AFRICA; EBOLA VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; LETTER; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; ZAIRE EBOLAVIRUS;

ANIMALS; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GABON; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SURVIVORS;

EID: 67650686813     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1507.090402     Document Type: Letter

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