Criteria for discharge of patients with Ebola virus diseases in high-income countries

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2015, Pages e739-e740

  Bevilacqua, Nazario ^a   Nicastri, Emanuele ^a   Chinello, Pierangelo ^a   Puro, Vincenzo ^a   Petrosillo, Nicola ^a   Di Caro, Antonino ^a   Capobianchi, Maria Rosaria ^a   Lanini, Simone ^a   Vairo, Francesco ^a   Pletschette, Michel ^b   Zumla, Alimuddin ^c   Ippolito, Giuseppe ^a   Boumis, Evangelo ^d   Cicalini, Stefania ^d   Corpolongo, Angela ^d   Galati, Vincenzo ^d   Mariano, Andrea ^d   Rosati, Silvia ^d   Taglietti, Fabrizio ^d   Vincenzi, Laura ^d   Antonini, Mario ^d   Caravella, Ilaria ^d   Garotto, Gabriele ^d   Marchioni, Luisa ^d   Maritti, Micaela ^d   Biava, Gianluigi ^d   Rizzi, Elisa Busi ^d   Castilletti, Concetta ^d   Bordi, Licia ^d   Lalle, Eleonora ^d   Meschi, Silvia ^d   Lapa, Daniele ^d   Marsella, Patrizia ^d   Colavita, Francesca ^d   Chiappini, Roberta ^d   Mazzarelli, Antonio ^d   Quartu, Serena ^d   Agrati, Chiara ^d   Carletti, Fabrizio ^d   Forbici, Federica ^d   Valli, Maria Beatrice ^d   Abbate, Isabella ^d   Amendola, Alessandra ^d   Garbuglia, Anna Rosa ^d   Paglia, Maria Grazia ^d   Bordi, Eugenio ^d   Travaglini, Damiano ^d   Toff oletti, Antonietta ^d   Battisti, Gianni ^d   Coppola, Alessanda ^d   De Marchis, Loredana ^d   De Marco, Nicola ^d   Giacomini, Paolo ^d   Di Gianbattista, Fabio ^d   Guiducci, Mario ^d   Marasco, Antonio ^d   Marzolini, Antonella ^d   Mercuri, Alessandro ^d   Nieddu, Paola ^d   Ondedei, Silvia ^d   Vescovo, Maurizio ^d   Vitolo, Laura ^d   Morea, Maurizio ^d   Battisti, Gaetano ^d   Liguori, Marco ^d   Lauria, Francesco Nicola ^d   Russo, Antonio ^d   D'Aprile, Paolo ^d   Petrecchia, Antonella ^d   Gentile, Marco ^d   more..

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCOME; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRAL CLEARANCE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; EUROPE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY;

DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EBOLAVIRUS; EUROPE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84947421447     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(15)00205-3     Document Type: Letter

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