Ebola virus imported from guinea to Senegal, 2014

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1026-1028

  Ka, Daye ^a   Fall, Gamou ^b   Cissé Diallo, Viviane ^a   Faye, Ousmane ^b   Deguenonvo Fortes, Louise ^a   Faye, Oumar ^b   Bah, Elhadji Ibrahim ^c   Diallo, Kadia Mbaye ^a   Balique, Fanny ^b   Ndour, Cheikh Tidiane ^a   Seydi, Moussa ^a   Sall, Amadou Alpha ^b  

^a Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dakar   (Senegal)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

^c Donka National Hospital   (Guinea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ANTIBODY TITER; ASTHENIA; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; FEVER; GUINEA; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MORTALITY RATE; POSTHUMOUS CARE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENEGAL; TRAVEL; VIRUS LOAD; VOMITING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YOUNG ADULT; CONTACT EXAMINATION; EPIDEMIC; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATIENT ISOLATION; TRANSMISSION;

CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; GUINEA; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ISOLATION; SENEGAL; TRAVEL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85019952649     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2306.161092     Document Type: Letter

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