Assessment of community event-based surveillance for Ebola virus disease, Sierra Leone, 2015

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1431-1437

  Ratnayake, Ruwan ^a   Crowe, Samuel J ^b   Jasperse, Joseph ^c   Privette, Grayson ^c   Stone, Erin ^c   Miller, Laura ^c   Hertz, Darren ^c   Fu, Clementine ^d   Maenner, Matthew J ^b   Jambai, Amara ^e   Morgan, Oliver ^b  

^a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ^*  (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c FOCUS 1000   (Sierra Leone)

^d Action contre la Faim   (Sierra Leone)

^e Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMMUNITY CARE; DEATH; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIERRA LEONE; STAFF TRAINING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YOUNG ADULT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH SURVEY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SIERRA LEONE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84978701853     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2208.160205     Document Type: Article

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