Does this patient have Ebola virus disease?

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1738-1741

  Tattevin, Pierre ^a   Durante Mangoni, Emanuele ^b   Massaquoi, Moses ^c,d  

^a PONTCHAILLOU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE   (Liberia)

^d CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA VIRUS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; EPIDEMIC; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA;

AFRICA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS;

EID: 84919647739     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-014-3473-7     Document Type: Article

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