Immunomodulatory adjunctive treatment options for Ebola virus disease patients
Peter Pickkers1, André van der Ven, Mihai G Netea
1Radboud University Medical Center, Internal Mail 710, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, peter.pickkers@radboudumc.nl.
Intensive Care Medicine
|April 3, 2015
Abstract
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