Ebola virus disease
Transmission dynamics and control of Ebola virus disease (EVD): a review
... experience Ebola outbreaks, which severely limits community-level knowledge of the ...of Ebola virus disease tend to be non- specific (for example, many cases are only febrile) [24], which ...
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Factors Prognosis of Ebola Virus Disease at the Wonkifong Ebola Treatment Center, Coyah, Guinea
... During a period of 5 months, 216 patients with the definition of a suspected case of Ebola virus disease and confirmed by the laboratory were included in our study. The mean age of confirmed cases ...
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Assessment of a health facility based active case finding system for Ebola virus disease in Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of the Congo, June–July 2018
... This model provides the R syntax for the models used to assess EVD awareness DOCX 21 kb Abbreviations ACF: Active Case Finding; ETU: Ebola Treatment Unit; EVD: Ebola Virus Disease; HCW: [r] ...
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Knowledge, Attitude And Practice Relating To Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Among Residents Of Some Military Barracks In Kaduna State, Nigeria
... towards Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) as, the respondents who had tertiary education scored higher than those in the other ...independent Ebola surveys conducted by the Lagos State Government and ...
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LOGISTIC MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE WITH CONVALESCENCE
... during Ebola Virus disease outbreak has been that of tracking and monitoring of all people who have come in contact with a first index case in order to treat and prevent them from transmitting the ...
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Ebola Virus Disease: A Brief Review
... Africa Ebola outbreak 2014 was believed to be most terrified incidents in medical history in regard of the number of human cases and mortalities (Bausch DG et ...include disease denial in the context of ...
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Mathematical models for devising the optimal Ebola virus disease eradication
... 3 disease with neu- rological symptoms ...for Ebola virus disease out- break modeling ...of Ebola medi- cation announced by the World Medical Association (WMA) brings hope to the ...
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Case-fatality Ratio Due to Ebola Virus Disease in North-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2019
... HWs infected with EVD are a major risk factor for failure to control EVD outbreaks. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is among the countries most frequently affected by EVD. The DRC is currently experiencing the ...
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AN OVER VIEW ON EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE
... Currently there is no a vaccines or the specific treatment is available for the treatment of the Ebola Virus Disease. Ebola is spread through the direct contact (through broken skin or unpro- ...
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The etiology of Ebola virus disease-like illnesses in Ebola virus- negative patients from Sierra Leone
... 1976, Ebola virus disease (EVD), a lethal illness with an average case fatality rate of 78% [1, 2], caused more than 30 outbreaks in the subsequent 40 years ...
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Theoretical perspectives on the infectiousness of Ebola virus disease
... of Ebola virus disease (EVD) centred in three West African countries has been ongoing since December 2013, with limited international spread to other coun- tries in Africa, Europe and the USA ...
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Evidence based guidelines for supportive care of patients with Ebola virus disease
... Remark: Assessing whether or not non-steroidal anti-inflammatory analgesics (in particular those that inhibit cyclooxygenase-1/ COX1) should be avoided because of anti-platelet effects or risks of acute kidney injury in ...
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Ebola virus disease: from epidemiology to prophylaxis
... of Ebola virus disease (EVD) continues to spread through West ...prevalent Ebola virus belongs to the species of Zaire ebolavirus , with a fatality rate as high as ...be Ebola ...
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Anti Ebola therapy for patients with Ebola virus disease: a systematic review
... This review is a comprehensive summary of data col- lected on the effects of specific anti-Ebola therapies. Given Ebola’s high mortality rate, sparse treatment op- tions, and high capacity for spread, it is ...
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EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE – A CLINICAL REVIEW
... The virus genome consists of a single 19 kb strand of negative sense RNA with seven viral genes that are transcribed by viral RNA dependent RNA polymerase present in the ...infection. Ebola virus has ...
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Clinical Review: Ebola virus disease
... However, failure to provide full supportive care to those with suspected (not confirmed) infection may result in substandard care for these patients, who may later be shown to have a treatable disease such as ...
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The 2014 Ebola virus disease outbreak in Pujehun, Sierra Leone: epidemiology and impact of interventions
... Two Ebola Holding Centers (EHCs) were operative by the end of June 2014, one inside the Pujehun hospital, later moved outside the town, and the second one in ...
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Ebola virus disease and the veterinary perspective
... transmission continues with direct contact with infected persons or their blood or body fluids [5]. Transmission of the Ebola virus by airborne particles has been hypoth- esized in animal models but not ...
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Ebola virus disease and critical illness
... Although this EVD outbreak narrowed some knowledge gaps, pathophysiology and the immunological response to acute infection and convalescence is still minimally char- acterized. Access to rapid point-of-care EVD ...
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Immune parameters and outcomes during Ebola virus disease
... The aim of this study was to analyze immune response parameters in a cohort of EBOV-infected patients from Guinea to better understand the pathogenic mechanisms that lead to survival or death during EVD. The supportive ...
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