Role of contact tracing in containing the 2014 Ebola outbreak: A review

African Health Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 225-236

  Saurabh, Shrivastava ^a   Prateek, Shrivastava ^a  

^a Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth Deemed to Be University   (India)

Author keywords

Contact tracing; Ebola virus disease; West Africa; World Health Organization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL MEDIA; SUSCEPTIBLE POPULATION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; WEST AFRICAN; GUINEA; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SURVEY; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION;

CONTACT TRACING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GUINEA; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 85019933159     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/ahs.v17i1.28     Document Type: Article

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