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Risk in the "Red Zone": Outcomes for Children Admitted to Ebola Holding Units in Sierra Leone Without Ebola Virus Disease.

Fitzgerald, F; Wing, K; Naveed, A; Gbessay, M; Ross, JCG; Checchi, F; Youkee, D; Jalloh, MB; Baion, D; Mustapha, A; et al. Fitzgerald, F; Wing, K; Naveed, A; Gbessay, M; Ross, JCG; Checchi, F; Youkee, D; Jalloh, MB; Baion, D; Mustapha, A; Jah, H; Lako, S; Oza, S; Boufkhed, S; Feury, R; Bielicki, J; Williamson, E; Gibb, DM; Klein, N; Sahr, F; Yeung, S (2017) Risk in the "Red Zone": Outcomes for Children Admitted to Ebola Holding Units in Sierra Leone Without Ebola Virus Disease. Clin Infect Dis, 65 (1). pp. 162-165. ISSN 1537-6591 https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix223
SGUL Authors: Bielicki, Julia Anna

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Abstract

We collected data on 1054 children admitted to Ebola Holding Units in Sierra Leone and describe outcomes of 697/1054 children testing negative for Ebola virus disease (EVD) and accompanying caregivers. Case-fatality was 9%; 3/630 (0.5%) children discharged testing negative were readmitted EVD-positive. Nosocomial EVD transmission risk may be lower than feared.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Ebola virus disease, children, nosocomial infection, pediatrics, viral hemorrhagic fever, Microbiology, 06 Biological Sciences, 11 Medical And Health Sciences
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: Academic Structure > Infection and Immunity Research Institute (INII)
Journal or Publication Title: Clin Infect Dis
ISSN: 1537-6591
Language: eng
Dates:
DateEvent
1 July 2017Published
20 March 2017Published Online
10 March 2017Accepted
Publisher License: Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0
Projects:
Project IDFunderFunder ID
MR/K023535/1Medical Research Councilhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000265
UNSPECIFIEDWellcome Trusthttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100004440
UNSPECIFIEDSave the ChildrenUNSPECIFIED
PubMed ID: 28369236
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URI: https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/109310
Publisher's version: https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix223

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