Ebola virus disease: Radiology preparedness

Radiology

Volumn 274, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 527-531

  Bluemke, David A ^a   Meltzer, Carolyn C ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRINCIDOFOVIR; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA VIRUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MENINGOCOCCEMIA; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PORTABLE ULTRASOUND SCANNER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGIST; TRAINING; TYPHOID FEVER; UNITED STATES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCIES; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; RADIOLOGY; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84921785675     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.14142502     Document Type: Article

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