Decreased peripheral health service utilisation during an outbreak of Marburg haemorrhagic fever, Uíge, Angola, 2005

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 200-202

  Roddy, P ^a   Marchiol, A ^a   Jeffs, B ^a   Palma, P P ^a   Bernal, O ^a   de la Rosa, O ^a   Borchert, M ^a,b  

^a MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angola; Disease outbreak; Ebola; Health service utilisation; Marburg virus disease; Viral haemorrhagic fevers

Indexed keywords

ANGOLA; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY CARE; EPIDEMIC; FILOVIRUS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL CARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER;

ANGOLA; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEMORRHAGIC FEVERS, VIRAL; HUMANS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; TRAVEL;

LAKE VICTORIA MARBURGVIRUS; MARBURGVIRUS;

EID: 58149306138     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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