Ebola response: Modeling the risk of heat stress from personal protective clothing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Potter, Adam W ^a   Gonzalez, Julio A ^a   Xu, Xiaojiang ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEAT STRESS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RISK REDUCTION; THERMOGENESIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WORK ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIC; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; MANIKIN; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMOREGULATION;

BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MANIKINS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING;

EID: 84956622193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143461     Document Type: Article

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