Ebola virus disease: Essential clinical knowledge
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1Department of Medicine, Royal Inland Hospital, Kamloops, British Columbia; 2Departments of Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta; 3Department of Microbiology-Infectious Diseases, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec Correspondence: Dr Kevin B Laupland, Royal Inland Hospital, 311 Columbi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Avicenna Journal of Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2231-0770
DOI: 10.4103/ajm.ajm_150_16