Clinical features of patients isolated for suspected Ebola virus disease at Connaught Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone: A retrospective cohort study

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1024-1033

  Lado, Marta ^a   Walker, Naomi F ^a,b,c   Baker, Peter ^a   Haroon, Shamil ^d   Brown, Colin S ^a,e   Youkee, Daniel ^a   Studd, Neil ^a   Kessete, Quaanan ^f   Maini, Rishma ^g   Boyles, Tom ^a,c   Hanciles, Eva ^h,i   Wurie, Alie ⁱ   Kamara, Thaim B ^f,h,i   Johnson, Oliver ^a   Leather, Andrew J M ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e HOSPITAL FOR TROPICAL DISEASES   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SIERRA LEONE   (Sierra Leone)

^g LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^h Ministry of Health and Sanitation   (Sierra Leone)

ⁱ MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SANITATION   (Sierra Leone)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFUSION; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HICCUP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIERRA LEONE; VOMITING; COMPLICATION; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE; VIRAL CONJUNCTIVITIS; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CONFUSION; CONJUNCTIVITIS, VIRAL; DIARRHEA; EBOLAVIRUS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HICCUP; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; PATIENT ISOLATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIERRA LEONE; VOMITING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940467209     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(15)00137-1     Document Type: Article

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