Case fatality rate for Ebola virus disease in West Africa

The Lancet

Volumn 384, Issue 9950, 2014, Pages 1260-

  Kucharski, Adam J ^a   Edmunds, W John ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CASE FATALITY RATE; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; FATALITY; INCIDENCE; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MORTALITY;

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

EID: 84912094781     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61706-2     Document Type: Letter

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