The largest ebola outbreak – What have we learned so far

Journal of Medicine (Bangladesh)

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-4

  Das, Debashish ^a   Guerin, Philippe J ^b   Leroy, Sandrine ^c   Sayeed, Abdullah Abu ^d   Abul Faiz, M ^e  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY   (France)

^d CHITTAGONG MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Bangladesh)

^e Dev Care Foundation   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; BUNDIBUGYO VIRUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA VIRUS; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; GUINEA; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; LIBERIA; MALI; MORTALITY; NIGERIA; RESTON VIRUS; SENEGAL; SIERRA LEONE; SUDAN VIRUS; SURVIVAL RATE; TAI FOREST VIRUS; URBAN POPULATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS VIRULENCE; ZAIRE VIRUS;

EID: 84923802797     PISSN: 19979797     EISSN: 20755384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3329/jom.v16i1.22363     Document Type: Editorial

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