Rapid development and use of a nationwide training program for cholera management, Haiti, 2010

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2094-2098

  Tauxe, Robert V ^a   Lynch, Michael ^a   Lambert, Yves ^b,c   Sobel, Jeremy ^a   Domerçant, Jean W ^a   Khan, Azharul ^d  

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

^b University of Haiti School of Medicine   (Haïti)

^c International Training and Education Center for HIV/AIDS   (Haïti)

^d INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHOLERA; CURRICULUM; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FATALITY; FLUID THERAPY; HAITI; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MORTALITY; NURSING STAFF; ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY; STAFF TRAINING; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84930477536     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1711.110857     Document Type: Article

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