Prognostic Analysis of Patients with Ebola Virus Disease

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Xin ^a,b   Rong, Yihui ^b   Sun, Lijian ^b   Liu, Liming ^b   Su, Haibin ^b   Zhang, Jian ^b   Teng, Guangju ^b   Du, Ning ^b   Chen, Haoyang ^b   Fang, Yuan ^c   Zhan, Wei ^c   Kanu, Alex B J ^d   Koroma, Sheku M ^d   Jin, Bo ^b   Xu, Zhe ^b   Song, Haihan ^e  

^a CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^b BEIJING 302 HOSPITAL   (China)

^c BGC Biotechnology Research Center   (China)

^d Jui Government Hospital   (Sierra Leone)

^e TONGJI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFIXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; DIAZEPAM; IBUPROFEN; NAPHTHOQUINONE; OMEPRAZOLE; PARACETAMOL; RANITIDINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYALGIA; ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UPPER ABDOMINAL PAIN; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LOAD; AGE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SIERRA LEONE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; EBOLAVIRUS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SIERRA LEONE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 84943175095     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004113     Document Type: Article

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