Anemia during Hospitalization in the Patients with Ebola Virus Disease [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Pathology, 2016 Ebola virus disease is the important emerging disease in Africa. This infection is deadly and has the main clinical feature as an acute hemorrhagic fever. The main hematological alteration in this infection is the platelet change.
beuy joob, viroj wiwanitkit
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Isolation of Angola-like Marburg virus from Egyptian rousette bats from West Africa. [PDF]
, 2020 Marburg virus (MARV) causes sporadic outbreaks of severe Marburg virus disease (MVD). Most MVD outbreaks originated in East Africa and field studies in East Africa, South Africa, Zambia, and Gabon identified the Egyptian rousette bat (ERB; Rousettus ...
Amara, Emmanuel +49 more
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Simian hemorrhagic fever virus infection of rhesus macaques as a model of viral hemorrhagic fever: Clinical characterization and risk factors for severe disease [PDF]
, 2011 Simian Hemorrhagic Fever Virus (SHFV) has caused sporadic outbreaks of hemorrhagic fevers in macaques at primate research facilities. SHFV is a BSL-2 pathogen that has not been linked to human disease; as such, investigation of SHFV pathogenesis in non ...
Bernbaum, John G. +12 more
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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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Sequential Monte Carlo Filtering Estimation of Ebola Progression in West Africa [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 We use a multivariate formulation of sequential Monte Carlo filter that utilizes mechanistic models for Ebola virus propagation and available incidence data to simultaneously estimate the disease progression states and the model parameters. This method has the advantage of performing the inference online as the new data becomes available and estimates ...
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever (Ebolavirus) [PDF]
, 2015 Without treatment, the Ebola Virus (also known as hemorrhagic fever) has up to a 90% fatality rate. Understanding this disease could help save a person’s life, especially if that person has recently traveled to ...
Hernandez, Maria, McKee, Katie
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Evaluating the use of cell phone messaging for community Ebola syndromic surveillance in high risked settings in Southern Sierra Leone [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Most underdeveloped countries do not meet core disease outbreak surveillance because of the lack of human resources, laboratory and infrastructural facilities.
Kangbai, Jia, Koroma, Mohamed
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, 2014 In light of the recent Ebola virus disease outbreak, nursing faculty at Memorial University of Newfoundland, School of Nursing recognized the need to reassess and reinforce undergraduate nursing students' knowledge and skills related to infection ...
April D. Manuel +4 more
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Estimating the Malaria Attributable Fever Fraction Accounting for Parasites Being Killed by Fever and Measurement Error [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 Malaria is a parasitic disease that is a major health problem in many tropical regions. The most characteristic symptom of malaria is fever. The fraction of fevers that are attributable to malaria, the malaria attributable fever fraction (MAFF), is an important public health measure for assessing the effect of malaria control programs and other ...
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