Ebola virus disease

ST Jacob, I Crozier, WA Fischer, A Hewlett… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2020 - nature.com
Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a severe and frequently lethal disease caused by Ebola virus
(EBOV). EVD outbreaks typically start from a single case of probable zoonotic transmission …

[HTML][HTML] Ebola virus disease: An emerging and re-emerging viral threat

M Rojas, DM Monsalve, Y Pacheco… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The genus Ebolavirus from the family Filoviridae is composed of five species including
Sudan ebolavirus, Reston ebolavirus, Bundibugyo ebolavirus, Taï Forest ebolavirus, and …

[图书][B] Fevers, feuds, and diamonds: Ebola and the ravages of history

P Farmer - 2020 - books.google.com
“Paul Farmer brings his considerable intellect, empathy, and expertise to bear in this
powerful and deeply researched account of the Ebola outbreak that struck West Africa in …

Asymptomatic infection and unrecognised Ebola virus disease in Ebola-affected households in Sierra Leone: a cross-sectional study using a new non-invasive assay …

JR Glynn, H Bower, S Johnson… - The Lancet infectious …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background The frequency of asymptomatic infection with Ebola virus is unclear: previous
estimates vary and there is no standard test. Asymptomatic infection with Ebola virus could …

SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence in Sierra Leone, March 2021: a cross-sectional, nationally representative, age-stratified serosurvey

MB Barrie, S Lakoh, JD Kelly, JS Kanu, JS Squire… - BMJ global …, 2021 - gh.bmj.com
Introduction As of 26 March 2021, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention had
reported 4 159 055 cases of COVID-19 and 111 357 deaths among the 55 African Union …

Diagnostics of Ebola virus

A Bettini, D Lapa, AR Garbuglia - Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Ebola is a highly pathogenic virus, which in humans reaches a mortality rate above 50%.
Due to a lack of laboratories in territories where Ebola viruses are endemic and the limited …

[HTML][HTML] Bombali virus in Mops condylurus bats, Guinea

LS Karan, MT Makenov, MG Korneev… - Emerging Infectious …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In 2018, a previously unknown Ebola virus, Bombali virus, was discovered in Sierra Leone.
We describe detection of Bombali virus in Guinea. We found viral RNA in internal organs of …

Insights from clinical research completed during the west Africa Ebola virus disease epidemic

A Rojek, P Horby, J Dunning - The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2017 - thelancet.com
Summary The west Africa Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic was extraordinary in scale.
Now that the epidemic has ended, it is a relevant time to examine published studies with …

[HTML][HTML] Seroprevalence of hepatitis B and hepatitis C among blood donors in Sierra Leone: A multi-year retrospective study

F Tognon, S Sevalie, J Gassimu, J Sesay… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Objectives In Sierra Leone, very little data are available on hepatitis B virus (HBV)
and hepatitis C virus (HCV) prevalence. Blood donor screening permits estimation of the …

A systematic review and meta-analysis of seroprevalence surveys of ebolavirus infection

H Bower, JR Glynn - Scientific data, 2017 - nature.com
Asymptomatic ebolavirus infection could greatly influence transmission dynamics, but there
is little consensus on how frequently it occurs or even if it exists. This paper summarises the …