The 2014 Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 95, Issue PART 8, 2014, Pages 1619-1624

  Gatherer, Derek ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAVIPIRAVIR;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTHRALGIA; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIARRHEA; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA VIRUS; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIC; EVOLUTION; FATALITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GUINEA; HEADACHE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; LIBERIA; MALI; MYALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; REVIEW; SIERRA LEONE; VOMITING;

AFRICA, WESTERN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS;

EID: 84904438309     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.067199-0     Document Type: Review

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