Lessons learned by surveillance during the tail-end of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, June-October 2015: A case series

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Keïta, Mory ^a   Conté, Fatoumata ^b   Diallo, Boubacar ^a   Lufwa, Dieudonné ^c   Katomba, Jacques ^c   Snacken, René ^a,d   Pallawo, Raymond ^a   Tolno, Aminata ^a,e   Diallo, Amadou Bailo ^a   Djingarey, Mamadou Harouna ^a   Subissi, Lorenzo ^a,d  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene of the Republic of Guinea   (Guinea)

^c Ministry of Public Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo   (Congo)

^d EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^e National Agency for Health Security   (Guinea)

Author keywords

Case series; Contact tracing; Ebola; Epidemic; Guinea; Outbreak; Surveillance; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BURIAL; CASE STUDY; CHILL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DYSPHAGIA; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GUINEA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LOSS OF APPETITE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRAVEL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VOMITING; YOUNG ADULT; CASE REPORT; CHILD; EBOLAVIRUS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; FEMALE; FEVER; GUINEA; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85018587902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-017-2405-x     Document Type: Article

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