Ebola and Its Global Research Architecture—Need for an Improvement

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Quarcoo, David ^a   Brüggmann, Dörthe ^a,b   Klingelhöfer, Doris ^a   Groneberg, David A ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CANADA; CITATION ANALYSIS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DATA ANALYSIS; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; FRANCE; GABON; GERMANY; HUMAN; JAPAN; PUBLICATION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SWITZERLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; HEALTH; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HISTORY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; TRENDS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION;

EID: 84943192780     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004083     Document Type: Article

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