Authors reply: management of patients with Ebola virus disease in Europe: high-level isolation units should have a key role.
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M D de Jong ([email protected])1, M Koopmans2, H Goossens3, on behalf of the authors of the original article4 1. Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2. Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 3. Department of Clinical Pathology, University Hospital Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium 4. http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20980
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin
دوره 19 50 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014