Filovirus outbreak detection and surveillance: Lessons from bundibugyo

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 204, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2011, Pages

  MacNeil, Adam ^a   Farnon, Eileen C ^a   Morgan, Oliver W ^a   Gould, Philip ^a   Boehmer, Tegan K ^a   Blaney, David D ^a   Wiersma, Petra ^a   Tappero, Jordan W ^a   Nichol, Stuart T ^a   Ksiazek, Thomas G ^a,b   Rollin, Pierre E ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUNDIBUGYO EBOLAVIRUS; CASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; UGANDA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; UGANDA;

EID: 80054769196     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir294     Document Type: Article

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