Ebola virus disease: Essential clinical knowledge

Since its initial outbreak in 1976, Ebola virus disease (EVD) has affected thousands of people, causing severe illness with high mortality rates. In the absence of a vaccine or effective specific treatment, as well as the lack of early diagnostic and detective methods, the EVD outbreak has generated...

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Autores principales:	Mahmoud Tawfik Khalafallah, Omar Ali Aboshady, Shaban Ahmed Moawed, Menna Said Ramadan
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Publicado:	Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2017
Materias:	ebola (mesh) ebola vaccines (mesh) ebola virus (mesh) hemorrhagic fever Medicine R
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5fdb3397348e4b57b49206c2acda102a2021-12-02T17:58:44ZEbola virus disease: Essential clinical knowledge2231-07702249-446410.4103/ajm.AJM_150_16https://doaj.org/article/5fdb3397348e4b57b49206c2acda102a2017-07-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/ajm.AJM_150_16https://doaj.org/toc/2231-0770https://doaj.org/toc/2249-4464Since its initial outbreak in 1976, Ebola virus disease (EVD) has affected thousands of people, causing severe illness with high mortality rates. In the absence of a vaccine or effective specific treatment, as well as the lack of early diagnostic and detective methods, the EVD outbreak has generated a significant worldwide health concern. Insufficient health-care system resources, deficient infection control measures, and the shortage of appropriate personal protective equipment acted as amplifiers of the outbreak extension, especially in poorly resourced and unprepared communities. Operating on the frontlines, health-care workers must be familiar, not only with the identification of the disease, but also with the ability to protect themselves and initiate the appropriate response. This review seeks to provide essential information required to identify and manage the disease, with an emphasis on pathogenesis, transmission, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. We conducted a literature search in MEDLINE/PubMed and Google Scholar using the following keywords: “Ebola, Ebola virus disease, Hemorrhagic Fever, Outbreak.” We included all types of publications. To augment our study, we searched the reference lists of identified reviews.Mahmoud Tawfik KhalafallahOmar Ali AboshadyShaban Ahmed MoawedMenna Said RamadanThieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd.articleebola (mesh)ebola vaccines (mesh)ebola virus (mesh)hemorrhagic feverMedicineRENAvicenna Journal of Medicine, Vol 07, Iss 03, Pp 96-102 (2017)
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description	Since its initial outbreak in 1976, Ebola virus disease (EVD) has affected thousands of people, causing severe illness with high mortality rates. In the absence of a vaccine or effective specific treatment, as well as the lack of early diagnostic and detective methods, the EVD outbreak has generated a significant worldwide health concern. Insufficient health-care system resources, deficient infection control measures, and the shortage of appropriate personal protective equipment acted as amplifiers of the outbreak extension, especially in poorly resourced and unprepared communities. Operating on the frontlines, health-care workers must be familiar, not only with the identification of the disease, but also with the ability to protect themselves and initiate the appropriate response. This review seeks to provide essential information required to identify and manage the disease, with an emphasis on pathogenesis, transmission, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. We conducted a literature search in MEDLINE/PubMed and Google Scholar using the following keywords: “Ebola, Ebola virus disease, Hemorrhagic Fever, Outbreak.” We included all types of publications. To augment our study, we searched the reference lists of identified reviews.
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Ebola virus disease: Essential clinical knowledge

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