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

Travel Med Infect Dis

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:

Published: December 2016

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