Epidemiologic characteristics, clinical manifestations, and risk factors of 139 patients with Ebola virus disease in western Sierra Leone
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- 作者：Zhe Xu ; MD ; PhDa ; Bo Jin ; MD ; PhDj ; Guangju Teng ; MDb ; Yihui Rong ; MD ; PhDc ; Lijian Sun ; MDd ; Jian Zhang ; MDe ; Ning Du ; MD ; PhDf ; Liming Liu ; MDg ; Haibin Su ; MD ; PhDh ; Yue Yuan ; MDi ; Haoyang Chen ; MDk ; chenhaoyang302@126.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author
- 关键词：Clinical outcome ; Symptom ; Prognostic factor ; Prevention
- 刊名：American Journal of Infection Control
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：1 November 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：44
- 期：11
- 页码：1285-1290
- 全文大小：327 K
文摘
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The 2014 West Africa Ebola virus outbreak is the largest Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic on record, and Sierra Leone is one of the severe outbreak sites.
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This study fully described epidemiological characteristics, clinical manifestations and clinical outcomes of 139 laboratory-confirmed EVD patients who admitted to the JUI Holding and Treatment Centre in western Sierra Leone between 15 November, 2014 and 18 January, 2015.
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The median age of investigated patients was 29 years and 55.4% were female. Of them, 76 patients (54.7%) died, and 63 patients (45.3%) were cured.
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Our data showed that mortality of EVD was associated with an older age, fever and probably hiccups.