Analysis of patient data from laboratories during the Ebola virus disease outbreak in Liberia, April 2014 to March 2015

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Furuse, Yuki ^a,b   Fallah, Mosoka ^c   Oshitani, Hitoshi ^b   Kituyi, Ling ^d   Mahmoud, Nuha ^e   Musa, Emmanuel ^e   Gasasira, Alex ^e   Nyenswah, Tolbert ^c   Dahn, Bernice ^c   Bawo, Luke ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE   (Liberia)

^d United Nations Office at Nairobi   (Kenya)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE FATALITY RATE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; DYSPNEA; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PATIENT CODING; RISK FACTOR; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VIRUS DETECTION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HISTORY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY; LIBERIA; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; LIBERIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85026752172     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005804     Document Type: Article

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