Clinical presentations and outcomes of patients with Ebola virus disease in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Ji, Ying Jie ^a   Duan, Xue Zhang ^a   Gao, Xu Dong ^a   Li, Lei ^a   Li, Chen ^a   Ji, Dong ^a   Li, Wen Gang ^a   Wang, Li Fu ^a   Meng, Yu Hua ^a   Yang, Xiao ^a   Ling, Bin Fang ^a   Song, Xue Ai ^a   Gu, Mei Lei ^a   Jiang, Tao ^b   Koroma, She Ku M ^c   Bangalie, James ^c   Duan, Hui Juan ^a  

^a BEIJING 302 HOSPITAL   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c Jui Government Hospital   (Sierra Leone)

Author keywords

Ebola virus; Ebola virus disease; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ARTESUNATE; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; METRONIDAZOLE; ONDANSETRON; ORAL REHYDRATION SOLUTION; PARACETAMOL; PHYTOMENADIONE; ZINC SULFATE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFUSION; CONJUNCTIVITIS; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY RATE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIERRA LEONE; SURVIVAL RATE; VIRUS LOAD; VOMITING; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CHILD; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HOSPITALIZATION; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EBOLAVIRUS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIERRA LEONE; VIRAL LOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84995807201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20499957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40249-016-0195-9     Document Type: Article

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