Ebola virus disease: An emerging zoonosis with importance for travel medicine

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 682-683

  Cardona Ospina, Jaime Andrés ^a   Giselle Badillo, Angélica ^a   Calvache Benavides, Carlos E ^a   Rodriguez Morales, Alfonso J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE PEREIRA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Ebola; Travel medicine; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANOREXIA; ANTELOPE; ARTHRALGIA; BAT; BLEEDING; BODY FLUID; CHIMPANZEE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EMPORIATRICS; EPIDEMIC; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HICCUP; HUMAN; LETHARGY; LETTER; LOSS OF APPETITE; MYALGIA; NONHUMAN; PORCUPINE; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; STOMACH PAIN; VOMITING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; TRANSMISSION; TRAVEL;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; TRAVEL; TRAVEL MEDICINE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84916928186     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2014.10.014     Document Type: Letter

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