Clinical characteristics of 154 patients suspected of having Ebola virus disease in the Ebola holding center of Jui Government Hospital in Sierra Leone during the 2014 Ebola outbreak

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2089-2095

  Yan, T ^a   Mu, J ^a   Qin, E ^a   Wang, Y ^a   Liu, L ^a   Wu, D ^a   Jia, H ^a   Li, Z ^a   Guo, T ^a   Wang, X ^a   Qin, Y ^a   Li, Y ^b   Chen, S ^a   Zhang, Y ^b   Zhang, J ^b   Wu, Y ^a   Wang, S ^a   Li, J ^a  

^a 302 MILITARY HOSPITAL   (China)

^b 302 MILITARY HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGE; ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; EYE PAIN; EYE REDNESS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HICCUP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; JAUNDICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; PHOTOPHOBIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIERRA LEONE; SORE THROAT; SURVIVOR; THORAX PAIN; VIRUS LOAD; VOMITING; ADOLESCENT; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SIERRA LEONE; VIRAL LOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84941413586     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: 14354373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-015-2457-z     Document Type: Article

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