Ebola survivors: Not out of the woods yet

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 352, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Harries, Jenny ^a   Jacobs, Michael ^b   Davies, Sally C ^c  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Health ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ARTHRALGIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EDITORIAL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EPIDEMIC; EYE DISEASE; FATIGUE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; PATHOGENESIS; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SURVIVOR; UVEITIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ENGLAND; EYE; FEMALE; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; TESTIS; VIROLOGY;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ENGLAND; EYE; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; SURVIVORS; TESTIS;

EID: 84959431885     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.i178     Document Type: Editorial

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