The face of Ebola: Changing frequency of haemorrhage in the West African compared with Eastern-Central African outbreaks

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Petti, Stefano ^a   Messano, Giuseppe Alessio ^a   Vingolo, Enzo Maria ^b   Marsella, Luigi Tonino ^c   Scully, Crispian ^d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case fatality rate; Conjunctivitis; Ebolavirus disease; Epistaxis; Gingival bleeding; Haemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CENTRAL AFRICAN; CONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DEATH; EAST AFRICAN; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VIRUS MUTATION; WEST AFRICAN; ZAIRE EBOLAVIRUS; BLACK PERSON; COMPLICATION; EBOLAVIRUS; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENETICS; HEMORRHAGE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; META ANALYSIS; MUTATION; SIERRA LEONE; VIROLOGY;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MUTATION; SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 84960403020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-015-1302-4     Document Type: Article

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