Infection control during filoviral hemorrhagic fever outbreaks: preferences of community members and health workers in Masindi, Uganda

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 48-50

  Raabe, Vanessa N ^a,b   Mutyaba, Imaam ^c   Roddy, Paul ^d   Lutwama, Julius J ^e   Geissler, Wenzel ^a,f   Borchert, Matthias ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Unit of Epidemiology and Disease Control   (Belgium)

^d MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^e UGANDA VIRUS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Uganda)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Community perception; Ebola hemorrhagic fever; Infection control; Marburg virus disease; Uganda; Viral hemorrhagic fever

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY CARE; CULTURAL SENSITIVITY; EPIDEMIC; FILOVIRUS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; UGANDA; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER;

COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; UGANDA;

LAKE VICTORIA MARBURGVIRUS;

EID: 70849089433     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2009.07.011     Document Type: Article

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