Ebola in West Africa: The outbreak able to change many things

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2014, Pages O597-O599

  Leroy, E M ^a,b   Labouba, I ^a   Maganga, G D ^a   Berthet, N ^a,c  

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

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c Institut Pasteur   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BEHAVIOR; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA VIRUS; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIC; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL ASPECT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; EBOLAVIRUS; GENETICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSES;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE VECTORS; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84912524573     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12781     Document Type: Article

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