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Comment
. 2025 Dec 8;10(12):342.
doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed10120342.

Intensive Therapeutic Plasma Exchange for Severe Yellow Fever: What Is the Evidence? Comment on Ho et al. Intensive Therapeutic Plasma Exchange-New Approach to Treat and Rescue Patients with Severe Form of Yellow Fever. Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2025, 10, 39

Till F Omansen  1   2   3 , Michael Ramharter  1   3
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Intensive Therapeutic Plasma Exchange for Severe Yellow Fever: What Is the Evidence? Comment on Ho et al. Intensive Therapeutic Plasma Exchange-New Approach to Treat and Rescue Patients with Severe Form of Yellow Fever. Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2025, 10, 39

Till F Omansen et al. Trop Med Infect Dis. .

Abstract

Recent outbreaks of yellow fever in Brazil, with hundreds of cases despite available vaccination, have drawn attention to the pressing need for effective therapeutic interventions, with a special focus on the critically ill [...].

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