Establishment of an ebola treatment unit and laboratory — Bombali District, Sierra Leone, July 2014–January 2015

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 64, Issue 39, 2015, Pages 1108-1111

  Gleason, Brigette ^a   Redd, John ^a   Kilmarx, Peter ^a,b   Sesay, Tom ^c   Bayor, Francis ^c   Mozalevskis, Antons ^d   Connolly, Allison ^d   Akpablie, James ^d   Prybylski, Dimitri ^a,e   Moffett, Daphne ^a,f   King, Michael ^a   Bass, Micah ^a   Joseph, Kristy ^a   Jones, Jefferson ^a   Ocen, Francis ^g  

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

^b Division of Global HIV AIDS   (Zimbabwe)

^c Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation   (Sierra Leone)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^e Center for Global Health   (Namibia)

^f CDC Tanzania   (Tanzania)

^g African Union   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SIERRA LEONE;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMICS; HEALTH FACILITY ADMINISTRATION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 84944453068     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6439a4     Document Type: Article

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