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Autor:
K.M. Johnson, Isabel J. King, R. O'Sullivan, I. Bosman, Luanne H. Elliott, P.A. Webb, Joseph B. McCormick, G.Komba Kono
Publikováno v:
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 80:577-582
A systematic study of Lassa fever in febrile children was undertaken over a four-year period, from August 1977 to August 1981, in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone, West Africa. 479 patients were studied; of these, 245 had adequate specimens to co
Autor:
Isabel J. King, Ethleen S. Smith, Joseph B. McCormick, Luanne H. Elliott, Karl M. Johnson, Patricia A. Webb
Publikováno v:
Journal of Infectious Diseases. 155:456-464
We measured levels of virus in sequential specimens from 137 patients with Lassa fever. The probability of fatal disease increased significantly with the level of viremia measured either on admission or during the course of illness. The odds ratio of
Autor:
R. B. Craven, Curtis L. Scribner, Isabel J. King, Luanne H. Elliott, Karl M. Johnson, Joseph B. McCormick, Patricia A. Webb, R. Belmont-Williams
Publikováno v:
New England Journal of Medicine. 314:20-26
In a study of Lassa fever in Sierra Leone, West Africa, we identified two variables associated with a high risk of death, and we evaluated the efficacy of ribavirin and Lassa virus-convalescent plasma for the treatment of Lassa fever. A serum asparta
Autor:
Joseph B. McCormick, Isabel J. King, Karl M. Johnson, Luanne H. Elliott, Patricia A. Webb, David H. Walker, Sylvia G. Whitfield
Publikováno v:
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene. 35(2)
In order to explore the significance of a previous observation that the most important pathologic changes in fatal Lassa fever are hepatic, we have studied postmortem liver biopsies from 19 patients with fatal Lassa fever. We observed a vigorous macr
Autor:
Tony C. Tong, Karl M. Johnson, Renie O'Sullivan, Ethleen S. Smith, Isabel J. King, Joseph B. McCormick, Sally Trippel, Patricia A. Webb
Publikováno v:
The Journal of infectious diseases. 155(3)
A prospective case-control study of Lassa fever was established in Sierra Leone to measure the frequency and case-fatality ratio of Lassa fever among febrile hospital admissions and to better delineate the clinical diagnosis and course of this diseas