When is contact tracing not enough to stop an outbreak?

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2018, Pages 1302-1304

  Dhillon, Ranu S ^a   Srikrishna, Devabhaktuni ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Patient Knowhow   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONTACT EXAMINATION; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN AREA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CONTACT TRACING; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS;

EID: 85056782630     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30656-X     Document Type: Note

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