Factors Underlying Ebola Virus Infection Among Health Workers, Kenema, Sierra Leone, 2014–2015

Health workers infected with Ebola virus in Kenema, Sierra Leone, had potential virus exposure inside and outside of hospitals. Prevention measures must address a spectrum of risk factors both in formal and informal care settings as well as in the community.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Clinical Infectious Diseases

• Publication date

  2016-05-18

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1093/cid/ciw327PMID 27193749PMCID 4967603
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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