A Primer on Ebola for Clinicians

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 33-37

  Toner, Eric ^a   Adalja, Amesh ^a   Inglesby, Thomas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ebola; epidemics; public health emergencies

Indexed keywords

EBOLA VACCINE;

EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CRITICAL CARE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLA VACCINES; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84924364059     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2014.115     Document Type: Article

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