Clinical predictors of mortality in patients with ebola virus disease

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1821-1824

  Barry, Moumié ^a   Touré, Abdoulaye ^b   Traoré, Fodé Amara ^a   Sako, Fodé Bangaly ^a   Sylla, Djibril ^b   Kpamy, Dimai Ouo ^a   Bah, Elhadj Ibrahima ^a   Bangoura, M'Mah ^a   Poncin, Marc ^a   Keita, Sakoba ^a   Tounkara, Thierno Mamadou ^b   Cisse, Mohamed ^b   Vanhems, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b Université Gamal Abdel Nasser de Conakry   (France)

Author keywords

Ebola virus disease; Hemorrhagic fever; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COHORT ANALYSIS; DYSPNEA; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; FEMALE; GUINEA; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MORTALITY; MORTALITY RATE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYALGIA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA;

ADULT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MALE; MYALGIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84940554533     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ202     Document Type: Article

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