Transmission of Ebola virus disease: An overview

Annals of Global Health

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 444-451

  Rewar, Suresh ^a   Mirdha, Dashrath ^b  

^a RAJASTHAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

^b Dr Sarvepali Radhakrishnan Rajasthan Ayurved University   (India)

Author keywords

Clinical features; Control measures; Etiology; EVD (Ebola virus disease); Transmission

Indexed keywords

VIRUS VACCINE;

AFRICA; AIRBORNE INFECTION; ANTELOPE; BAT; BLOOD; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODILY SECRETIONS; CHIMPANZEE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FILOVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYALGIA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT CARE; REVIEW; SORE THROAT; SUDAN; UGANDA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEAKNESS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ANIMAL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; INCIDENCE; TRANSMISSION;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE;

EID: 84929172751     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22149996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aogh.2015.02.005     Document Type: Review

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