Sexual and mother-to-child transmission of ebola virus in the postconvalescent period

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 974-975

  Sonnenberg, Pam ^a   Field, Nigel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST MILK; CONVALESCENCE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SPERM; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRAL CLEARANCE; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MOTHER; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSMISSION; VAGINA; VIROLOGY;

BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; EBOLAVIRUS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; MILK, HUMAN; MOTHERS; SEMEN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VAGINA;

EID: 84936130830     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu981     Document Type: Letter

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