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Volume 23, Supplement—December 2017
SUPPLEMENT ISSUE
Global Health Security Supplement
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Surveillance Training for Ebola Preparedness in Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, and Mali

Victor M. CáceresComments to Author , Sekou Sidibe, McKenzie Andre, Denise Traicoff, Stephanie Lambert, Melanie E. King, Ditu Kazambu, Augusto Lopez, Biagio Pedalino, Dionisio J. Herrera Guibert, Peter Wasswa, Placido Cardoso, Bernard Assi, Alioune Ly, Bouyagui Traore, Frederick J. Angulo, Linda Quick, and STEP Working Group
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (V.M. Cáceres, M. Andre, D. Traicoff, S. Lambert, M. King, A. Lopez, B. Pedalino, F.J. Angulo, L. Quick); CDC Foundation, Atlanta (S. Sidibe); African Field Epidemiology Network and Field Epidemiology Training Program, Dakar, Senegal (D. Kazambu); Training Programs in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions Network, Atlanta (D.J. Herrera Guibert); Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda (P. Wasswa); Instituto Nacional Saúde Pública, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau (P. Cardoso); Institut National d'Hygiene Publique, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (B. Assi); Centre des Opérations d’Urgence Sanitaire, Dakar (A. Ly); African Field Epidemiology Network, Field Epidemiology Training Program, Centre National d’Appui à la lutte contre la Maladie, Bamako, Mali (B. Traore)

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Table 6

Daily zero-reporting rates for suspected Ebola cases using short message service texting for Surveillance Training for Ebola Preparedness program in 4 countries in West Africa, 2015

Country No. reporters Reporting dates No. days Mean reporting rate (range), %
Guinea-Bissau 14 Jan 24–Nov 1 282 53 (22–78)
Senegal 20 April 1–Nov 1 215 65 (23–93)
Mali 15 July 25–Nov 1 100 68 (24–98)

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1Members of STEP Working Group are listed at the end of this article.

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