Healthcare students and workers' knowledge about transmission, epidemiology and symptoms of Zika fever in four cities of Colombia

Juan A Sabogal-Roman; David Ricardo Murillo-García; M Camila Yepes-Echeverri; Juan D Restrepo-Mejia; Santiago Granados-Álvarez; Alberto E Paniz-Mondolfi; Wilmer E Villamil-Gómez; Diana Carolina Zapata-Cerpa; Keyben Barreto-Rodriguez; Alfonso J Rodríguez-Morales

doi:10.1016/j.tmaid.2015.12.003

Healthcare students and workers' knowledge about transmission, epidemiology and symptoms of Zika fever in four cities of Colombia

Travel Med Infect Dis. 2016 Jan-Feb;14(1):52-54. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2015.12.003. Epub 2015 Dec 23.

Affiliations

¹ Public Health and Infection Research Incubator and Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.
² Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hospital Internacional, Barquisimeto, Venezuela and the Laboratory of Biochemistry, Instituto de Biomedicina / Instituto Venezolano de los Seguros Sociales (IVSS), Caracas, Venezuela; Working Group on Zoonoses, International Society for Chemotherapy, Aberdeen, UK; Committee on Travel Medicine, Pan-American Association of Infectious Diseases, Quito, Ecuador.
³ Committee on Travel Medicine, Pan-American Association of Infectious Diseases, Quito, Ecuador; Infectious Diseases and Infection Control Research Group, Hospital Universitario de Sincelejo, Sincelejo, Sucre, Colombia; Programa del Doctorado de Medicina Tropical, Universidad de Cartagena, Cartagena, Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Colombia; Committee on Zoonoses and Haemorrhagic Fevers, Asociación Colombiana de Infectología, Bogotá, DC, Colombia.
⁴ Infectious Diseases and Infection Control Research Group, Hospital Universitario de Sincelejo, Sincelejo, Sucre, Colombia.
⁵ Grupo de Investigación, Corporación Universitaria Antonio José de Sucre CORPOSUCRE, Sincelejo, Sucre, Colombia.
⁶ Public Health and Infection Research Incubator and Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia; Working Group on Zoonoses, International Society for Chemotherapy, Aberdeen, UK; Committee on Travel Medicine, Pan-American Association of Infectious Diseases, Quito, Ecuador; Infectious Diseases and Infection Control Research Group, Hospital Universitario de Sincelejo, Sincelejo, Sucre, Colombia; Committee on Zoonoses and Haemorrhagic Fevers, Asociación Colombiana de Infectología, Bogotá, DC, Colombia. Electronic address: arodriguezm@utp.edu.co.

PMID: 26748604
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2015.12.003

No abstract available

Keywords: Colombia; Epidemiology; Knowledge; Latin America; Zika.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Cities / epidemiology
Colombia / epidemiology
Female
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice*
Health Personnel / education*
Humans
Male
Students
Surveys and Questionnaires
Zika Virus Infection / epidemiology*
Zika Virus Infection / prevention & control
Zika Virus Infection / transmission*