Updates in diagnosis and management of Ebola hemorrhagic fever [PDF]
Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a lethal viral disease transmitted by contact with infected people and animals. Ebola infection represents a worldwide health threat causing enormous mortality rates and fatal epidemics. Major concern is pilgrimage seasons with
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Ebola hemorrhagic Fever and the current state of vaccine development. [PDF]
Current Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa already reached the total number of 1,323 including 729 deaths by July 31st. the fatality is around 55% in the southeastern area of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria. The number of patients with Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever (EHF) was continuously increasing even though the any effective therapeutics or ...
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Ebola Model and Optimal Control with Vaccination Constraints [PDF]
The Ebola virus disease is a severe viral haemorrhagic fever syndrome caused by Ebola virus. This disease is transmitted by direct contact with the body fluids of an infected person and objects contaminated with virus or infected animals, with a death rate close to 90% in humans.
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Ebola hemorrhagic fever: genetic biomarkers and vaccine development. [PDF]
The Ebola virus causes a highly virulent systemic disease that involves viral hemorrhagic fever, affects multiple organ systems, and leads to internal bleeding and, in most cases, death. The World Health Organization estimates that as of August 31, 2014, there have been 3,685 cases and 1,841 deaths during the current outbreak (World Health Organization,
Oliphant E.
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Ebola hemorrhagic fever outbreaks: strategies for effective epidemic management, containment and control [PDF]
Ebola hemorrhagic fever, caused by the highly virulent RNA virus of the filoviridae family, has become one of the world's most feared pathogens. The virus induces acute fever and death, often associated with hemorrhagic symptoms in up to 90% of infected ...
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Key features of Ebola hemorrhagic fever: a review
The current outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa has become a devastating problem, with a mortality rate around 51%; over 3 132 deaths have been confirmed and even more are expected in this case.
Zulane Lima Sousa
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Ebola hemorrhagic fever: current outbreak and progress in finding a cure. [PDF]
As reported: “A health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, who cared for dying Ebola patient has been tested positive for the virus after a preliminary test, officials said early Sunday. If confirmed, it would be the first known person-to-person transmission of the disease in the United States” [1].
Saeidnia S, Abdollahi M.
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern; a Review Article [PDF]
Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) was first reported in 1976 with two concurrent outbreaks of acute viral hemorrhagic fever centered in Yambuku (near the Ebola River), Democratic Republic of Congo, and also in Nzara, Sudan.
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Host genetic diversity enables Ebola hemorrhagic fever pathogenesis and resistance. [PDF]
Existing mouse models of lethal Ebola virus infection do not reproduce hallmark symptoms of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, neither delayed blood coagulation and disseminated intravascular coagulation, nor death from shock, thus restricting pathogenesis studies
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever and Pregnancy [PDF]
(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) No abstract provided.
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