Community-based care of Ebola virus disease in west Africa

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 151-152

  Salmon, Sharon ^a,b   McLaws, Mary Louise ^b   Fisher, Dale ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c Dept Medicine Endocrinol Diabet   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EBOLA VACCINE;

CASE MANAGEMENT; COMMUNITY CARE; DISINFECTION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA VIRUS; HAND WASHING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LETTER; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST AFRICAN; AFRICA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; INFECTION CONTROL; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; TRANSMISSION;

AFRICA, WESTERN; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS;

EID: 84921064073     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)71080-1     Document Type: Letter

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