Ebola: lessons learned from HIV and tuberculosis epidemics

Affiliations

¹ Medical Practice Evaluation Center, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA. Electronic address: pdrain@partners.org.

Paul K Drain. Lancet Infect Dis. 2015 Feb.

. 2015 Feb;15(2):146-7.

doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)71079-5. Epub 2015 Jan 19.

¹ Medical Practice Evaluation Center, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA. Electronic address: pdrain@partners.org.

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Comment in

Ebola: the real lessons from HIV scale-up.
Rabkin M, El-Sadr WM. Rabkin M, et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2015 May;15(5):506. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(15)70136-2. Epub 2015 Apr 19. Lancet Infect Dis. 2015. PMID: 25932577 No abstract available.

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