Are surveillance response systems enough to effectively combat and contain the Ebola outbreak?

Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Wiwanitkit, Viroj ^a,b   Tambo, Ernest ^c,d   Ugwu, Emmanuel Chidiebere ^e   Ngogang, Jeane Yonkeu ^f   Zhou, Xiao Nong ^g  

^a Surindra Rajabhat University   (Thailand)

^b JOSEPH AYOBABALOLA UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^e NNAMDI AZIKIWE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^f Faculté des Sciences Biomédicales   (China)

^g CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

Africa; Ebola; Outbreak; Surveillance response systems

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION CONTROL; LETTER; MASS SCREENING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 85006191478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20499957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2049-9957-4-7     Document Type: Letter

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