Blood as medicine: Social meanings of blood and the success of Ebola trials

The Lancet

Volumn 385, Issue 9966, 2015, Pages 420-

  Bannister Tyrrell, Melanie ^a   Gryseels, Charlotte ^a   Delamou, Alexandre ^b   D'Alessandro, Umberto ^c,d   Van Griensven, Johan ^a   Grietens, Koen Peeters ^a,e,f  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b Centre de Formation et de Recherche en Santé Rurale de Maferinyah   (Guinea)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Partners for Applied Social Sciences   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; SUPERSTITION; WITCHCRAFT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BLOOD; STEREOTYPING; VIROLOGY;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BLOOD; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; STEREOTYPING; SUPERSTITIONS;

EID: 84923400162     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)62392-8     Document Type: Letter

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