Factors underlying Ebola virus infection among health workers, Kenema, Sierra Leone, 2014-2015

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 454-459

  Senga, Mikiko ^a   Pringle, Kimberly ^b   Ramsay, Andrew ^a,c   Brett Major, David M ^d   Fowler, Robert A ^e   French, Issa ^f   Vandi, Mohamed ^f   Sellu, Josephine ^f   Pratt, Christian ^f   Saidu, Josephine ^f   Shindo, Nahoko ^a   Bausch, Daniel G ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f Kenema Government Hospital   (Sierra Leone)

Author keywords

Ebola; Health worker; Infection prevention and control; Outbreak; Viral hemorrhagic fever

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE FATALITY RATE; DIARRHEA; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; FEVER; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIERRA LEONE; VOMITING; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 84982104795     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciw327     Document Type: Article

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