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Clinical Features, Case Definition and Clinical Management of Ebola Virus Disease

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The Ebola virus and the Marburg virus together form the family of Filoviridae. The Filoviruses are thread-like RNA viruses that cause fever and haemorrhagic complications. The Filoviruses cause severe disease in humans and non-human primates (gorillas, chimpanzees and monkeys) with an extremely high case fatality rate in humans ranging from 25 to 90% depending on the subtype and the availability of medical care.

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  1. King’s Sierra Leone Partnership, Freetown, Sierra Leone

    Marta Lado

  2. King’s Sierra Leone Partnership, King’s Centre for Global Health, King’s College London and King’s Health Partners, Freetown, Sierra Leone

    Marta Lado & Patrick Howlett

  3. King’s Sierra Leone Partnership, King’s Centre for Global Health, King’s Health Partners, King’s College London, London, UK

    Colin S. Brown, Daniel Youkee, Oliver Johnson & Andy Hall

  4. Department of Infection, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    Colin S. Brown

  5. Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

    Naomi F. Walker

  6. Hospital for Tropical Diseases, University College London Hospital, London, UK

    Naomi F. Walker

  7. King’s Sierra Leone Partnership, King’s Centre for Global Health, Weston Education Centre, London, UK

    Hooi-Ling Harrison

  8. Infection, Immunity, Inflammation and Physiological Medicine, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK

    Felicity Fitzgerald

  9. Solent NHS Trust, Southampton, UK

    Natalie Mounter

  10. National Infection Service, Public Health England, London, UK

    Colin S. Brown

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    Marta Lado

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Lado, M. et al. (2018). Clinical Features, Case Definition and Clinical Management of Ebola Virus Disease. In: Lado, M. (eds) Ebola Virus Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94854-6_2

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