Protecting healthcare personnel from acquiring Ebola virus disease

Affiliations

¹ 1Department of Hospital Epidemiology,University of North Carolina Health Care,Chapel Hill,North Carolina.
² 3Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine,UNC School of Medicine,Chapel Hill,North Carolina.
³ 2Division of Infectious Diseases,UNC School of Medicine,Chapel Hill,North Carolina.

David J Weber et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2015 Oct.

. 2015 Oct;36(10):1229-32.

doi: 10.1017/ice.2015.205.

¹ 1Department of Hospital Epidemiology,University of North Carolina Health Care,Chapel Hill,North Carolina.
² 3Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine,UNC School of Medicine,Chapel Hill,North Carolina.
³ 2Division of Infectious Diseases,UNC School of Medicine,Chapel Hill,North Carolina.

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Conflict of interest statement

Potential conflicts of interest. All authors report no conflicts of interest relevant to this article.

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