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Emergence of Lassa Fever Disease in Northern Togo: Report of Two Cases in Oti District in 2016
Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2017 Background. Lassa fever belongs to the group of potentially fatal hemorrhagic fevers, never reported in Togo. The aim of this paper is to report the first two cases of Lassa fever infection in Togo. Case Presentation.
Akouda Akessiwe Patassi +14 more
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Ebola virus disease: Essential clinical knowledge
Avicenna Journal of Medicine, 2017 Since its initial outbreak in 1976, Ebola virus disease (EVD) has affected thousands of people, causing severe illness with high mortality rates. In the absence of a vaccine or effective specific treatment, as well as the lack of early diagnostic and ...
Mahmoud Tawfik Khalafallah +3 more
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever: Genetic Biomarkers and Vaccine Development [PDF]
Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers, 2014 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,
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Modernising epidemic science: enabling patient-centred research during epidemics [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Emerging and epidemic infectious disease outbreaks are a significant public health problem and global health security threat. As an outbreak begins, epidemiological investigations and traditional public health responses are generally mounted ...
Horby, Peter W., Rojek, Amanda M.
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Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2017 Summary: Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) is an emerging threat to public health. The last epidemic in West Africa had a great effect on the affected communities.
Mohamed M.G. Mohamed +6 more
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Ebola and Marburg Hemorrhagic Fevers: Neglected Tropical Diseases?
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2012 Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) and Marburg hemorrhagic fever (MHF) are rare viral diseases, endemic to central Africa. The overall burden of EHF and MHF is small in comparison to the more common protozoan, helminth, and bacterial diseases typically referred to as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
Adam MacNeil, Pierre E Rollin
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Malattia da virus Ebola, diagnostica, prevenzione. [PDF]
, 2015 La malattia da virus Ebola (acronimo inglese EVD), precedentemente conosciuta come febbre emorragica Ebola (acronimo inglese EHF) è una malattia degli esseri umani e di altri primati causata dal virus Ebola.
MAKSIMENKA POLACCI, YULIYA
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Satellite Detection of Ebola River Hemorrhagic Fever Epidemics Trigger Events [PDF]
Ebola hemorrhagic fever, named after the Ebola River in Central Africa, first appeared in June 1976, during an outbreak in Nzara and Maridi, Sudan. In September 1976, a separate outbreak was recognized in Yambuku, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC ...
Pinzon, Jorge E., Tucker, Compton J.
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Ebola virus disease 2014 [PDF]
, 2014 Ebola virus disease was irst described in 1976 originating from the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since then, Ebola virus has become an important public health threat in Africa, and now it is of great concern worldwide due to the ...
Arellanos Soto, Daniel +4 more
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Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2017 We previously developed optimized DNA vaccines against both Lassa fever and Ebola hemorrhagic fever viruses and demonstrated that they were protective individually in guinea pig and nonhuman primate models.
Kathleen A. Cashman +8 more
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