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Journal of Public Health in Africa, 2023 On 20th September 2022, Uganda declared the 7th outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) caused by the Sudan Ebola strain following the confirmation of a case admitted at Mubende Regional Referral Hospital.
Jane R. Aceng +42 more
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Community-based Crisis Response: Evidence from Sierra Leone’s Ebola Outbreak [PDF]
, 2020 Postmortems on the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa suggest that effective community engagement helped slow transmission by encouraging people to come forward and be tested.
Christensen, Darin +4 more
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Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2020 Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a severe and frequently lethal disease caused by Ebola virus (EBOV). EVD outbreaks typically start from a single case of probable zoonotic transmission, followed by human-to-human transmission via direct contact or contact ...
Shevin T. Jacob +10 more
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Folia Toruniensia, 2021 Aim: The study investigated the awareness of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) and information seeking behaviour of rural dwellers in Nigeria. Methods: The survey type of the descriptive research design was used in conducting the study and the study group ...
Ebiye V. Edonkumoh +3 more
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Science Progress, 2016 This paper is the combination of a review on the problems of data collection and modelling efforts of the recent Ebola epidemics. After a brief review of data availability, the modelling frameworks have been discussed. Both deterministic and stochastic models have been reviewed and supplemented with a short discussion of some problems of parameter ...
Kamalaldin, Kamalaldin +2 more
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Adult and paediatric haematology and clinical chemistry laboratory reference limits for Liberia
African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2020 Background: As more research is conducted in Liberia, there is a need for laboratory reference limits for common chemistry and haematology values based on a healthy population. Reference limits from the United States may not be applicable.
Mark W. Kieh +10 more
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Fractional-Order Ebola-Malaria Coinfection Model with a Focus on Detection and Treatment Rate
Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, 2022 Coinfection of Ebola virus and malaria is widespread, particularly in impoverished areas where malaria is already ubiquitous. Epidemics of Ebola virus disease arise on a sporadic basis in African nations with a high malaria burden. An observational study
Lingling Zhang +4 more
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Predicting the extinction of Ebola spreading in Liberia due to mitigation strategies [PDF]
, 2015 The Ebola virus is spreading throughout West Africa and is causing thousands of deaths. In order to quantify the effectiveness of different strategies for controlling the spread, we develop a mathematical model in which the propagation of the Ebola virus
Braunstein, L. A. +3 more
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Proceedings, 2020 Ebola virus (EBOV) glycoprotein (GP) is a class I fusion protein whose maturation is dependent on furin-mediated processing. EBOV-GP is heavily glycosylated, with glycans constituting ~50% of its molecular mass.
Changqing Yu +8 more
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A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Ebola Virus Disease Therapeutics.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2019 BACKGROUND Although several experimental therapeutics for Ebola virus disease (EVD) have been developed, the safety and efficacy of the most promising therapies need to be assessed in the context of a randomized, controlled trial.
S. Mulangu +50 more
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