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Assessment of Environmental Contamination and Environmental Decontamination Practices within an Ebola Holding Unit, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Evidence to inform decontamination practices at Ebola holding units (EHUs) and treatment centres is lacking. We conducted an audit of decontamination procedures inside Connaught Hospital EHU in Freetown, Sierra Leone, by assessing environmental swab specimens for evidence of contamination with Ebola...
Autores principales: | Youkee, Daniel, Brown, Colin S., Lilburn, Paul, Shetty, Nandini, Brooks, Tim, Simpson, Andrew, Bentley, Neil, Lado, Marta, Kamara, Thaim B., Walker, Naomi F., Johnson, Oliver |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4687095/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26692018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145167 |
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