Assessment of Environmental Contamination and Environmental Decontamination Practices within an Ebola Holding Unit, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Daniel Youkee; Colin S. Brown; Paul Lilburn; Nandini Shetty; Tim Brooks; Andrew Simpson; Neil Bentley; Marta Lado; Thaim B. Kamara; Naomi F. Walker; Oliver Johnson

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0145167

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Assessment of Environmental Contamination and Environmental Decontamination Practices within an Ebola Holding Unit, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Daniel Youkee ,

* E-mail: daniel.youkee@kcl.ac.uk

Affiliation King’s Sierra Leone Partnership, King's Centre for Global Health, King's College London, and King’s Health Partners, London, United Kingdom
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Colin S. Brown,

Affiliations King’s Sierra Leone Partnership, King's Centre for Global Health, King's College London, and King’s Health Partners, London, United Kingdom, The Hospital for Tropical Diseases, University College London Hospitals, London, United Kingdom
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Paul Lilburn,

Affiliation King’s Sierra Leone Partnership, King's Centre for Global Health, King's College London, and King’s Health Partners, London, United Kingdom
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Nandini Shetty,

Affiliation Public Health England, Salisbury, United Kingdom
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Tim Brooks,

Affiliation Public Health England, Salisbury, United Kingdom
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Andrew Simpson,

Affiliation Public Health England, Salisbury, United Kingdom
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Neil Bentley,

Affiliation Public Health England, Salisbury, United Kingdom
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Marta Lado,

Affiliation King’s Sierra Leone Partnership, King's Centre for Global Health, King's College London, and King’s Health Partners, London, United Kingdom
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Thaim B. Kamara,

Affiliation Connaught Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone
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Naomi F. Walker,

Affiliations King’s Sierra Leone Partnership, King's Centre for Global Health, King's College London, and King’s Health Partners, London, United Kingdom, Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Clinical Infectious Diseases Research Initiative, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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Oliver Johnson

Affiliation King’s Sierra Leone Partnership, King's Centre for Global Health, King's College London, and King’s Health Partners, London, United Kingdom
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Assessment of Environmental Contamination and Environmental Decontamination Practices within an Ebola Holding Unit, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Daniel Youkee,
Colin S. Brown,
Paul Lilburn,
Nandini Shetty,
Tim Brooks,
Andrew Simpson,
Neil Bentley,
Marta Lado,
Thaim B. Kamara,
Naomi F. Walker

Published: December 21, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145167

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