The first case of ebola virus disease acquired outside Africa

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 371, Issue 25, 2014, Pages 2439-2440

  Parra, J Manuel ^a   Salmerón, Octavio J ^a   Velasco, María ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN ALCORCÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTONIC SOLUTION; PARACETAMOL; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; COUGHING; DETERIORATION; DISEASE COURSE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LETTER; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALAISE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NURSE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEAKNESS; COMPLICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL;

EID: 84915796036     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1412662     Document Type: Letter

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