Clinical illness and outcomes in patients with Ebola in Sierra Leone.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Limited clinical and laboratory data are available on patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD). The Kenema Government Hospital in Sierra Leone, which had an existing infrastructure for research regarding viral hemorrhagic fever, has received and cared for patients with EVD since the beginning of the outbreak in Sierra Leone in May 2014.

Methods

We reviewed available epidemiologic, clinical, and laboratory records of patients in whom EVD was diagnosed between May 25 and June 18, 2014. We used quantitative reverse-transcriptase-polymerase-chain-reaction assays to assess the load of Ebola virus (EBOV, Zaire species) in a subgroup of patients.

Results

Of 106 patients in whom EVD was diagnosed, 87 had a known outcome, and 44 had detailed clinical information avai

SUBMITTER: Schieffelin JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4318555 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature