Bacterial co-infection is rare in patients with Ebola virus disease in a military Ebola virus disease treatment unit in Sierra Leone

Journal of Infection

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 406-407

  Lamb, Lucy ^a,b   Robson, Jack ^a   Ardley, Christian ^a   Bailey, Mark ^a   Dickson, Stuart ^a   Fletcher, Tom ^a   Hinsley, David ^a   Hutley, Emma ^a   Nicholson Roberts, Timothy ^a   Rees, Paul ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood culture; Ebola virus disease

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE;

ADULT; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EXPOSURE; EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE; FEMALE; FILOVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY TEST; MILITARY PHENOMENA; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; SIERRA LEONE; VOMITING; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COINFECTION; COMPLICATION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COINFECTION; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SIERRA LEONE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84942834512     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: 15322742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2015.03.004     Document Type: Letter

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