Ebola Virus Disease: An Update on Epidemiology, Symptoms, Laboratory Findings, Diagnostic Issues, and Infection Prevention and Control Issues for Laboratory Professionals

The 2014 to 2016 Ebola virus disease (EVD), through the sheer size of the outbreak and combined experience within both resource-rich and resource-poor settings, allowed for more information to be gained about the clinical and pathologic features of EVD. This review highlights the range of aspects of...

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Published inClinics in laboratory medicine Vol. 37; no. 2; p. 269
Main Authors Brown, Colin S, Mepham, Stephen, Shorten, Robert J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.06.2017
Subjects
Algorithms
Clinical Laboratory Techniques
Disease Outbreaks
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola - diagnosis
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola - epidemiology
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola - prevention & control
Humans
Laboratories
Preparedness
Safety
Viral hemorrhagic fever
Ebola
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Summary:The 2014 to 2016 Ebola virus disease (EVD), through the sheer size of the outbreak and combined experience within both resource-rich and resource-poor settings, allowed for more information to be gained about the clinical and pathologic features of EVD. This review highlights the range of aspects of EVD that the authors find are relevant to laboratory medicine, including the need for robust prediagnostic and laboratory processing algorithms to inform sampling of suspect patients, the vast majority of whom, in resource-rich settings, will have another diagnosis.
ISSN:1557-9832
DOI:10.1016/j.cll.2017.01.003