Healthcare students and workers' knowledge about transmission, epidemiology and symptoms of Zika fever in four cities of Colombia

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 52-54

  Sabogal Roman, Juan A ^a   Murillo García, David Ricardo ^a   Camila Yepes Echeverri, M ^a   Restrepo Mejia, Juan D ^a   Granados Álvarez, Santiago ^a   Paniz Mondolfi, Alberto E ^b,c,d   Villamil Gómez, Wilmer E ^d,e,f,g   Zapata Cerpa, Diana Carolina ^h   Barreto Rodriguez, Keyben ⁱ   Rodríguez Morales, Alfonso J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE PEREIRA   (Colombia)

^b Hospital Internacional   (Venezuela)

^c INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA   (Venezuela)

^d Working Group on Zoonoses   (United Kingdom)

^e Pan American Association of Infectious Diseases   (Ecuador)

^f Hospital Universitario de Sincelejo   (Colombia)

^g UNIVERSIDAD DE CARTAGENA   (Colombia)

^h Asociación Colombiana de Infectología ^*  (Colombia)

ⁱ Grupo de Investigación   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Colombia; Epidemiology; Knowledge; Latin America; Zika

Indexed keywords

COLOMBIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; LETTER; MEDICAL STUDENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PROPHYLAXIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMPTOM; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZIKA FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CITY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STUDENT; TRANSMISSION;

CITIES; COLOMBIA; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; STUDENTS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84959878839     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2015.12.003     Document Type: Letter

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