Marburg, Lassa and Ebola viral hemorrhagic fevers
Ardouin, C.; Chevalier, J.M.; Algayres, J.P.
Medecine Tropicale Revue du Corps de Sante Colonial 41(2): 191-199
1981
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-682X PMID: 7242302 Document Number: 177699
For each of these three fevers recently described, the authors report the history of their identification. The features of the three viruses, and the clinical aspects of the diseases they induce, are also indicated. The laboratory diagnosis is described. Practical indications are given for the transportation of the specimens to the only three high security laboratories in the world. The laboratory diagnosis is described. Some cautions are indicated handling and treating patients. It must be envisaged also to organize a four degrees quarantive cautions; compulsory for necropsies, burials, and occasionally for long distant transportations of patients are indicated.