Personal Protective Equipment: Protecting Health Care Providers in an Ebola Outbreak

Clinical Therapeutics

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2402-2410

  Fischer, William A ^a   Weber, David J ^a   Wohl, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ebola; infection prevention and control; outbreak; personal protective equipment; transmission

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY PROTECTION; CONTROL STRATEGY; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; FOOT PROTECTION; GLOVE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; PROTECTION; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SKIN PROTECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CROSS INFECTION; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION;

CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84947976296     PISSN: 01492918     EISSN: 1879114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2015.07.007     Document Type: Article

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