Assessment of the usefulness of integrated disease surveillance and response on suspected ebola cases in the Brong Ahafo Region, Ghana

Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Issah, Kofi ^a   Nartey, Kennedy ^a   Amoah, Richard ^a   Bachan, Emmanuel George ^a   Aleeba, Jacob ^a   Yeetey, Enuamah ^a   Letsa, Timothy ^a  

^a GHANA HEALTH SERVICE   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Brong Ahafo; Disease surveillance; Ebola; Ghana

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA VIRUS; FEAR; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTEGRATED DISEASE SURVEILLANCE AND RESPONSE SYSTEM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITY CONTROL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84930190291     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20499957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40249-015-0051-3     Document Type: Article

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