Assessment of Environmental Contamination and Environmental Decontamination Practices within an Ebola Holding Unit, Freetown, Sierra Leone

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Youkee, Daniel ^a   Brown, Colin S ^a,b   Lilburn, Paul ^a   Shetty, Nandini ^c   Brooks, Tim ^c   Simpson, Andrew ^c   Bentley, Neil ^c   Lado, Marta ^a   Kamara, Thaim B ^d   Walker, Naomi F ^a,e,f   Johnson, Oliver ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HOSPITAL FOR TROPICAL DISEASES   (United Kingdom)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d Ministry of Health and Sanitation   (Sierra Leone)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CLEANING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EBOLA HOLDING UNIT; EBOLAVIRUS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DECONTAMINATION; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIERRA LEONE; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS EXAMINATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

DECONTAMINATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; RNA, VIRAL; SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 84956937674     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145167     Document Type: Article

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