The Ebola outbreak of 2014-2015: From coordinated multilateral action to effective disease containment, vaccine development, and beyond

Journal of Global Infectious Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 127-138

  Wojda, Thomas R ^a   Valenza, Pamela L ^a   Cornejo, Kristine ^a   McGinley, Thomas ^a   Galwankar, Sagar C ^b   Kelkar, Dhanashree ^b   Sharpe, Richard P ^a   Papadimos, Thomas J ^c   Stawicki, Stanislaw P ^a  

^a ST LUKE S UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic and therapeutic update; Ebola outbreak; epidemiology; socioeconomic developments; West Africa

Indexed keywords

EBOLA VACCINE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DRUG RESEARCH; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; POINT OF CARE TESTING; POST EBOLA SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYNDROME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84948760033     PISSN: 0974777X     EISSN: 09748245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0974-777X.170495     Document Type: Article

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