Design improvements for personal protective equipment used in Ebola and other epidemic outbreaks

Global Health Science and Practice

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 325-329

  Glancey, Margaret ^a   Osei, Patience ^a   Patterson, William Alexander ^a   Petney, Matthew ^a   Scavo, Laura ^a   Ruparelia, Chandrakant ^b   Acharya, Soumyadipta ^a   Yazdi, Youseph ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b JHPIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT;

EID: 85026874254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2169575X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.9745/GHSP-D-17-00152     Document Type: Article

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