Outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea: Where Ecology Meets Economy

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Bausch, Daniel G ^a,b   Schwarz, Lara ^c  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b California   (Peru)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA VIRUS; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDITORIAL; GUINEA; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; VIRUS INFECTION; ZAIRE EBOLAVIRUS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECOSYSTEM; EPIDEMIC; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; SOCIOECONOMICS; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ECOSYSTEM; GUINEA; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 84905474653     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003056     Document Type: Editorial

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