What clinicians should know about the 2014 Ebola outbreak

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1710-1717

  Tosh, Pritish K ^a   Sampathkumar, Priya ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Abbreviations and Acronyms CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; EVD Ebola virus disease; PPE personal protective equipment

Indexed keywords

BRINCIDOFOVIR; EBOLA VACCINE; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AWARENESS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONGO; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA VIRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; EPIDEMIC; FLUID THERAPY; GUINEA; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; LABORATORY TEST; MARBURG VIRUS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; AFRICA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; TRANSMISSION;

AFRICA, WESTERN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS;

EID: 84919846438     PISSN: 00256196     EISSN: 19425546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2014.10.010     Document Type: Review

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