Correction: Lassa hemorrhagic fever in a late term pregnancy from northern Sierra Leone with a positive maternal outcome: case report

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  • Luis M Branco
  • Matt L Boisen
  • Kristian G Andersen
  • Jessica N Grove
  • Lina M Moses
  • Ivana J Muncy
  • Lee A Henderson
  • John S Schieffellin
  • James E Robinson
  • James J Bangura
  • Donald S Grant
  • Vanessa N Raabe
  • balu M Fonnie
  • Eleina M Zaitsev
  • Pardis C Sabeti
  • Robert F Garry
چکیده

Author details Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Autoimmune Technologies, LLC, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Corgenix Medical Corporation, Broomfield, Colorado, USA. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Vybion, Inc., Ithaca, New York, USA. Department of Paediatrics, Section of Infectious Disease, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Ministry of Health and Sanitation Workplace Health, Republic of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone. The Global Viral Forecasting Initiative, San Francisco, California, USA. Kenema Government Hospital Lassa Fever Ward, Kenema, Republic of Sierra Leone. University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

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عنوان ژورنال:

دوره 8  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011