Ebola hemorrhagic fever in 2014: The tale of an evolving epidemic

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 161, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 746-748

  Del Rio, Carlos ^a   Mehta, Aneesh K ^b   Lyon, G Marshall ^b   Guarner, Jeannette ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EBOLA VACCINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; BODY FLUID; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; AFRICA; EBOLA VIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

AFRICA; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS;

EID: 84914168100     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/M14-1880     Document Type: Note

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