Compassionate use of experimental drugs in the Ebola outbreak

The Lancet

Volumn 384, Issue 9957, 2014, Pages 1843-1844

  Folayan, Morenike ^a   Brown, Brandon ^b   Yakubu, Aminu ^c   Peterson, Kristin ^b   Haire, Bridget ^d  

^a OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c National Health Research Ethics Committee   (Nigeria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG; ANTIVIRUS AGENT;

COMPASSIONATE USE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ETHICS; EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; MALE;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MALE; THERAPIES, INVESTIGATIONAL;

EID: 84924956221     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61605-6     Document Type: Letter

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