Fatal case of newborn Lassa fever virus infection mimicking late onset neonatal sepsis: a case report from northern Nigeria

BACKGROUND: Lassa fever is a zoonotic viral infection endemic to the West Africa countries. It is highly fatal during pregnancy and as such reports of neonatal onset Lassa fever infections are rare in scientific literature. We report a fatal case of Lassa fever in a 26-day-old neonate mimicking the...

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Autores principales: Ogunkunle, Taofik Oluwaseun, Bello, Surajudeen Oyeleke, Anderson, Chinwe Immaculata, Musa, Rashida, Olaosebikan, Rasaq, Imam, Abdulazeez
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7418325/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32778167
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-020-00731-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7418325/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32778167
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-020-00731-1

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