Clinical presentations and outcomes of patients with Ebola virus disease in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinical and laboratory data were collected and analysed from patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Jui Government Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where patients with EVD were received and/or treated from October 1, 2014 to March 21, 2015 during the West Africa EVD outbreak.

Methods

The study admitted 285 patients with confirmed EVD and followed them up till the endpoint (recovery or death). EVD was confirmed by quantitative RT-PCR assays detecting blood Ebola virus (EBOV).

Results

Among the 285 lab-confirmed EVD cases in Jui Government Hospital, 146 recovered and 139 died, with an overall survival rate of 51.23 %. Patients under the age of 6 years had a lower survival rate (37.50 %). Most non-survivors (79.86 %) died within 7 days after admission

SUBMITTER: Ji YJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5094140 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature