Ebola virus disease: a highly fatal infectious disease reemerging in West Africa

Ebolavirus can cause a highly fatal and panic-generating human disease which may jump from bats to other mammals and human. High viral loads in body fluids allow efficient transmission by contact. Lack of effective antivirals, vaccines and public health infrastructures in parts of Africa make it dif...

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Autores principales: To, Kelvin K.W., Chan, Jasper F.W., Tsang, Alan K.L., Cheng, Vincent C.C., Yuen, Kwok-Yung
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Institut Pasteur. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7110538/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25456100
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.micinf.2014.11.007
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description Ebolavirus can cause a highly fatal and panic-generating human disease which may jump from bats to other mammals and human. High viral loads in body fluids allow efficient transmission by contact. Lack of effective antivirals, vaccines and public health infrastructures in parts of Africa make it difficult to health workers to contain the outbreak.
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spelling pubmed-71105382020-04-02 Ebola virus disease: a highly fatal infectious disease reemerging in West Africa To, Kelvin K.W. Chan, Jasper F.W. Tsang, Alan K.L. Cheng, Vincent C.C. Yuen, Kwok-Yung Microbes Infect Article Ebolavirus can cause a highly fatal and panic-generating human disease which may jump from bats to other mammals and human. High viral loads in body fluids allow efficient transmission by contact. Lack of effective antivirals, vaccines and public health infrastructures in parts of Africa make it difficult to health workers to contain the outbreak. Institut Pasteur. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS 2015-02 2014-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7110538/ /pubmed/25456100 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.micinf.2014.11.007 Text en Copyright © 2014 Institut Pasteur. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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