Acquired immunity and asymptomatic reservoir impact on frontline and airport ebola outbreak syndromic surveillance and response

Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Tambo, Ernest ^a,b,c,d   Xiao Nong, Zhou ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^c BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^d Higher Institute of Public Health Sciences   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic; Ebola; Immunity; Reservoir; Response; Surveillance; Syndromic

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA VIRUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNIZATION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; PLAGUE; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SMALLPOX;

EID: 84930189540     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20499957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2049-9957-3-41     Document Type: Article

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