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Guidance for contact tracing of cases of Lassa fever, Ebola or Marburg haemorrhagic fever on an airplane: results of a European expert consultation

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, November 2012
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Title
Guidance for contact tracing of cases of Lassa fever, Ebola or Marburg haemorrhagic fever on an airplane: results of a European expert consultation
Published in
BMC Public Health, November 2012
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-12-1014
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Authors

Andreas Gilsdorf, Dilys Morgan, Katrin Leitmeyer

Abstract

Travel from countries where viral haemorrhagic fevers (VHF) are endemic has increased significantly over the past decades. In several reported VHF events on airplanes, passenger trace back was initiated but the scale of the trace back differed considerably. The absence of guidance documents to help the decision on necessity and scale of the trace back contributed to this variation.This article outlines the recommendations of an expert panel on Lassa fever, Ebola and Marburg haemorrhagic fever to the wider scientific community in order to advise the relevant stakeholders in the decision and scale of a possible passenger trace back.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 3%
Nigeria 2 2%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 106 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 28 25%
Researcher 18 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 11%
Student > Bachelor 11 10%
Other 9 8%
Other 25 22%
Unknown 10 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 51 45%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 12%
Social Sciences 8 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 4%
Other 18 16%
Unknown 12 11%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 July 2014.
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#12,864,827
of 22,687,320 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#8,907
of 14,763 outputs
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#150,377
of 275,949 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#143
of 290 outputs
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