Ebola Virus Stability Under Hospital and Environmental Conditions

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 214, Issue , 2016, Pages S142-S144

  Westhoff Smith, Danielle ^a   Hill Batorski, Lindsay ^a   N'Jai, Alhaji ^a,b,c   Eisfeld, Amie J ^a   Neumann, Gabriele ^a   Halfmann, Peter ^a   Kawaoka, Yoshihiro ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIERRA LEONE   (Sierra Leone)

^c University of Sierra Leone   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Banknotes; Ebola virus; Virus stability

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; ARTICLE; EBOLAVIRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MONEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIERRA LEONEAN; SURVIVAL TIME; SYRINGE NEEDLE; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS SURVIVAL; VIRUS VIRULENCE; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIC; FOMITE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIROLOGY;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FOMITES; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY;

EID: 84990946218     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiw167     Document Type: Article

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