Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 371, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 2083-2091

  Maganga, Gaël D ^a   Kapetshi, Jimmy ^c   Berthet, Nicolas ^a,e   Ilunga, Benoît Kebela ^b   Kabange, Felix ^b   Kingebeni, Placide Mbala ^c   Mondonge, Vital ^d   Muyembe, Jean Jacques T ^c   Bertherat, Eric ^a,h   Briand, Sylvie ^a,h   Cabore, Joseph ^d   Epelboin, Alain ^f   Formenty, Pierre ^a,h   Kobinger, Gary ^g,i   González Angulo, Licé ^a,h   Labouba, Ingrid ^a   Manuguerra, Jean Claude ^g   Okwo Bele, Jean Marie ^a,h   Dye, Christopher ^a,h,i   Leroy, Eric M ^a,h  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b Ministry of Health   (Congo)

^c Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale   (Congo)

^d WHO   (Congo)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f Université Diderot Paris 7   (France)

^g INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^h University de Montpellier   (France)

ⁱ PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CONGO; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DYSPHAGIA; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VOMITING; VP24 GENE; VP30 GENE; VP35 GENE; VP40 GENE; ADOLESCENT; AFRICA; AGED; COMPLICATION; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA, WESTERN; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84912539215     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1411099     Document Type: Article

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