Erratum: Tackling emerging infections: clinical and public health lessons from the West African Ebola virus disease outbreak, 2014–2015 (Clinical Medicine (2015) 15(5) (457–460), (S1470211824014489), (10.7861/clinmedicine.15-5-457));Tackling emerging infections: Clinical and public health lessons from the West African Ebola virus disease outbreak, 2014-2015

Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 457-460

  Walker, Naomi F ^a,b   Whitty, Christopher J M ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Control; Ebola virus disease; Outbreak; Response; West Africa

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE MANAGEMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; FLUID THERAPY; HUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; WEST AFRICAN; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; INFECTION CONTROL; TRANSMISSION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL;

EID: 84943276671     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: 14734893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.15-6-565a     Document Type: Erratum

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