Controlling Ebola: Key role of Ebola treatment centres

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 139-141

  Chowell, Gerardo ^a,b,c   Viboud, Cécile ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIRUS DETECTION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; INFECTION CONTROL; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS;

EID: 84921305257     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)71086-2     Document Type: Note

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