The tail of the epidemic and the challenge of tracing the very last ebola case

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Kaasik Aaslav, K ^a   Coulombier, D ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA VIRUS; EDITORIAL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROPHYLAXIS; RISK FACTOR; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CONTACT EXAMINATION; EPIDEMIC; GUINEA; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; LIBERIA; SIERRA LEONE;

CONTACT TRACING; EPIDEMICS; GUINEA; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; LIBERIA; SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 84961343133     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2015.20.12.21075     Document Type: Editorial

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