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Contact tracing following outbreak of Ebola virus disease in urban settings in Nigeria
An outbreak of Ebola virus disease occurred in Nigeria between July and September 2014. Contact tracing commenced in Lagos, and extended to Port Harcourt and Enugu as the outbreak continued to spread. A total of 899 contacts were traced. Contact tracing enhanced immediate identification of symptomat...
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The African Field Epidemiology Network
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5500941/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28721172 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2017.27.1.12565 |
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author | Fawole, Olufunmilayo Ibitola Dalhat, Mahmood Muazu Park, Meeyoung Hall, Casey Daniel Nguku, Patrick Mboya Adewuyi, Peter Adebayo |
author_facet | Fawole, Olufunmilayo Ibitola Dalhat, Mahmood Muazu Park, Meeyoung Hall, Casey Daniel Nguku, Patrick Mboya Adewuyi, Peter Adebayo |
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description | An outbreak of Ebola virus disease occurred in Nigeria between July and September 2014. Contact tracing commenced in Lagos, and extended to Port Harcourt and Enugu as the outbreak continued to spread. A total of 899 contacts were traced. Contact tracing enhanced immediate identification of symptomatic contacts, some of whom eventually became cases. Contact tracing could be challenging in urban cities. However, use of electronic technology, adequate logistics, and highly skilled personnel enhanced the tracing of contacts to facilitate the successful containment of the outbreak. Nigeria was certified to be Ebola free on 21st October 2014. Ebola virus surveillance needs to be maintained to ensure the disease has been contained and to prevent future outbreaks. This case study aims to help trainees to review concepts, apply skills, and address challenges for contact tracing based on the experience of the Nigerian Field Epidemiology Training Network during the 2014 Ebola virus disease outbreak. |
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spelling | pubmed-55009412017-07-18 Contact tracing following outbreak of Ebola virus disease in urban settings in Nigeria Fawole, Olufunmilayo Ibitola Dalhat, Mahmood Muazu Park, Meeyoung Hall, Casey Daniel Nguku, Patrick Mboya Adewuyi, Peter Adebayo Pan Afr Med J Case Study An outbreak of Ebola virus disease occurred in Nigeria between July and September 2014. Contact tracing commenced in Lagos, and extended to Port Harcourt and Enugu as the outbreak continued to spread. A total of 899 contacts were traced. Contact tracing enhanced immediate identification of symptomatic contacts, some of whom eventually became cases. Contact tracing could be challenging in urban cities. However, use of electronic technology, adequate logistics, and highly skilled personnel enhanced the tracing of contacts to facilitate the successful containment of the outbreak. Nigeria was certified to be Ebola free on 21st October 2014. Ebola virus surveillance needs to be maintained to ensure the disease has been contained and to prevent future outbreaks. This case study aims to help trainees to review concepts, apply skills, and address challenges for contact tracing based on the experience of the Nigerian Field Epidemiology Training Network during the 2014 Ebola virus disease outbreak. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2017-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5500941/ /pubmed/28721172 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2017.27.1.12565 Text en © Olufunmilayo Ibitola Fawole et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Study Fawole, Olufunmilayo Ibitola Dalhat, Mahmood Muazu Park, Meeyoung Hall, Casey Daniel Nguku, Patrick Mboya Adewuyi, Peter Adebayo Contact tracing following outbreak of Ebola virus disease in urban settings in Nigeria |
title | Contact tracing following outbreak of Ebola virus disease in urban settings in Nigeria |
title_full | Contact tracing following outbreak of Ebola virus disease in urban settings in Nigeria |
title_fullStr | Contact tracing following outbreak of Ebola virus disease in urban settings in Nigeria |
title_full_unstemmed | Contact tracing following outbreak of Ebola virus disease in urban settings in Nigeria |
title_short | Contact tracing following outbreak of Ebola virus disease in urban settings in Nigeria |
title_sort | contact tracing following outbreak of ebola virus disease in urban settings in nigeria |
topic | Case Study |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5500941/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28721172 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2017.27.1.12565 |
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