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

Colin Brown; Stephen Mepham; Robert J. Shorten

doi:10.1016/j.cll.2017.01.003

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

Colin Brown^*
, Stephen Mepham
, Robert J. Shorten

^*Corresponding author for this work

AMR & HCAI Divisional Office

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	269-284
Number of pages	16
Journal	Clinics in Laboratory Medicine
Volume	37
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cll.2017.01.003
Publication status	Published - Jun 2017

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Keywords

Ebola
Preparedness
Safety
Viral hemorrhagic fever

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Ebola Virus Disease: An Update on Epidemiology, Symptoms, Laboratory Findings, Diagnostic Issues, and Infection Prevention and Control Issues for Laboratory Professionals. / Brown, Colin; Mepham, Stephen; Shorten, Robert J.
In: Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, Vol. 37, No. 2, 06.2017, p. 269-284.

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

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