Ebola virus disease contact tracing activities, lessons learned and best practices during the Duport Road outbreak in Monrovia, Liberia, November 2015

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Wolfe, Caitlin M ^a   Hamblion, Esther L ^a   Schulte, Jacqueline ^b   Williams, Parker ^b   Koryon, Augustine ^b   Enders, Jonathan ^b   Sanor, Varlee ^b   Wapoe, Yatta ^b   Kwayon, Dash ^b   Blackley, David J ^c   Laney, Anthony S ^c   Weston, Emily J ^c   Dokubo, Emily K ^c   Davies Wayne, Gloria ^a   Wendland, Annika ^a   Daw, Valerie T S ^a   Badini, Mehboob ^a   Clement, Peter ^a   Mahmoud, Nuha ^a   Williams, Desmond ^c   Gasasira, Alex ^a   Nyenswah, Tolbert G ^b   Fallah, Mosoka ^b   more..

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b United Nations Mission for Emergency Ebola Response   (Liberia)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EBOLA VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; FEMALE; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIBERIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; QUARANTINE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIBERIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85021655193     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005597     Document Type: Article

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