Knowledge, attitude and practices among Healthcare Workers towards Pulmonary Plague Infection following an outbreak in Madagascar, 2017: A pilot study

• Inessa Markus ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Inessa Markus, Lynn Meurs

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany, ECDC Fellowship Programme, Field Epidemiology path (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Solna, Sweden

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• Lynn Meurs ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Inessa Markus, Lynn Meurs

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany, ECDC Fellowship Programme, Field Epidemiology path (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Solna, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6973-1237

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• Rebekah Wood,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Centre for International Health Protection, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Vaoary Razafimbia,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Direction de la Veille Sanitaire et de la Surveillance Epidémiologique, Ministère de la Santé Publique (DVSSE), Antananarivo, Madagascar

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• Andrianasolo Radonirina,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratoire d’Accueil et de Recherche en Santé Publique et en Technologies de l’Information Médicale et de la Communication (LARTIC), Antananarivo, Madagascar

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• Delphin Kolie,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre National de Formation et de Recherche en Santé Rurale de Maferinyah, Forécariah, Guinea

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• Rapelerano Rabenja Fahafahantsoa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliation Laboratoire d’Accueil et de Recherche en Santé Publique et en Technologies de l’Information Médicale et de la Communication (LARTIC), Antananarivo, Madagascar

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• Alexandre Delamou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Gamal Abdel Nasser University of Conakry, Conakry, Guinea

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• Jan Walter,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Matthias Borchert ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Centre for International Health Protection, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Thomas Paerisch

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: paerischt@posteo.de

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3658-623X

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