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Late diagnosis of Lassa fever outbreak in endemic areas lead to high mortality, Kenema District, Sierra Leone, February - March 2019
INTRODUCTION: the Kenema District Surveillance team in Sierra Leone received notifications of patients with suspected Lassa fever on February 20(th) and March 2(nd), 2019. On that day, an investigation started to confirm the diagnosis and search for additional cases. METHODS: we used the Lassa fever...
Autores principales: | Sesay, Umaru, Hakizimana, Leonard, Elduma, Adel Hussein, Henderson, Alden, Gebru, Gebrekrstos Negash |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The African Field Epidemiology Network
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9617488/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36338567 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2022.42.256.35838 |
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