Development, Use, and Impact of a Global Laboratory Database during the 2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 215, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 1799-1806

  Durski, Kara N ^a,g   Singaravelu, Shalini ^a   Teo, Junxiong ^a,b   Naidoo, Dhamari ^a   Bawo, Luke ^c   Jambai, Amara ^d   Keita, Sakoba ^e   Yahaya, Ali Ahmed ^a   Muraguri, Beatrice ^a   Ahounou, Brice ^a   Katawera, Victoria ^a   Kuti George, Fredson ^a   Nebie, Yacouba ^a   Kohar, T Henry ^c   Hardy, Patrick Jowlehpah ^c   Djingarey, Mamoudou Harouna ^a   Kargbo, David ^d   Mahmoud, Nuha ^a   Assefa, Yewondwossen ^a   Condell, Orla ^a   N'Faly, Magassouba ^f   Van Gurp, Leon ^a   Lamanu, Margaret ^a   Ryan, Julia ^a   Diallo, Boubacar ^a   Daffae, Foday ^d   Jackson, Dikena ^c   Malik, Fayyaz Ahmed ^a   Raftery, Philomena ^a   Formenty, Pierre ^a   more..

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Singapore)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE   (Liberia)

^d Ministry of Health and Sanitation   (Liberia)

^e Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene   (Guinea)

^f National Reference Laboratory   (Guinea)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

databases.; Disease outbreaks; Ebola; hemorrhagic fever; laboratories

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; AFRICA; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STANDARDIZATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; BIOBANK; EBOLAVIRUS; FACTUAL DATABASE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; LABORATORY; PHYSIOLOGY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VIROLOGY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AFRICA, WESTERN; BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN BANKS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 85022334824     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jix236     Document Type: Article

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