Epidemiology of Ebola virus disease transmission among health care workers in Sierra Leone, May to December 2014: a retrospective descriptive study
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- 作者：Olushayo Olu ; Brima Kargbo ; Sarian Kamara ; Alie H. Wurie…
- 关键词：Ebola ; Virus ; Transmission ; Health care ; Workers
- 刊名：BMC Infectious Diseases
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：December 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：15
- 期：1
- 全文大小：686 KB
- 刊物主题：Infectious Diseases; Parasitology; Medical Microbiology; Tropical Medicine; Internal Medicine;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2334
文摘
Background Anecdotal evidence suggests that much of the continuing infection of health care workers (HCWs) with Ebola virus during the current outbreak in Sierra Leone has occurred in settings other than Ebola isolation units, and it is likely that some proportion of acquisition by HCWs occurs outside the workplace. There is a critical need to define more precisely the pathways of Ebola infection among HCWs, to optimise measures for reducing risk during current and future outbreaks.