Ebola virus disease cluster — Northern Sierra Leone, January 2016

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 65, Issue 26, 2016, Pages 681-683

  Alpren, Charles ^a   Sloan, Michelle ^a   Boegler, Karen A ^b   Martin, Daniel W ^a   Ervin, Elizabeth ^b   Washburn, Faith ^a   Rickert, Regan ^a   Singh, Tushar ^a   Redd, John T ^a   Bangalie, Andrew ^c   Bass, Micah ^a   Bennett, Sarah D ^a   Boateng, Isaac Akuamoah ^d   Campbell, Deanna ^a   Cassell, Cynthia ^a   Cotton, Matt ^e   Duffy, Nadezhda ^a   Goodfellow, Ian ^f   Hersey, Sara ^a   Jackson, Eddie L ^a   Jah, Umaru ^g   Jimissa, Augustine S ^h   Kamara, Ansumana S ^a   Kamara, Fatmata ^a   Kellam, Paul ^e   Levine, Rebecca ^a   Meredith, Luke ^f   Miller, Leigh Ann ^a   Moody Geissler, Stephanie ^a   Musoke, Robert ^d   Naidoo, Dhamari ^d   Ndyahikayo, John ^d   Njie, Gibril ^a   Phan, My ^e   Rambaut, Andrew ⁱ   Sesay, Foday ^h   more..

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

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c e Health Africa   (Nigeria)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^e WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g Sylvanus Koroma Campus   (Sierra Leone)

^h MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SANITATION   (Sierra Leone)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE REPORT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; SIERRA LEONE; YOUNG ADULT;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; SIERRA LEONE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84978715575     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6526a4     Document Type: Note

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