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Review
. 2014 Dec 10:349:g7348.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.g7348.

Ebola virus disease

Nicholas J Beeching  1 , Manuel Fenech  2 , Catherine F Houlihan  3
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Review

Ebola virus disease

Nicholas J Beeching et al. BMJ. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: NJB is an author of several references cited in this monograph. NJB is partially supported by a National Institute of Health Research grant to the Health Protection Unit in Emerging Infections and Zoonoses, a partnership between the University of Liverpool, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and Public Health England.

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Fig 1 Infographic on Ebola virus disease
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Fig 2 Map of Ebola virus outbreaks 1976-2014 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
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Fig 3 Healthcare worker in personal protective equipment at an Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone, 2014 (with permission from Chris Lane, Public Health England/WHO)
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Fig 4 Differential diagnosis. Confirmatory tests should be performed before, or in tandem with, differentiating tests if Ebola virus infection is suspected
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Fig 5 Diagnostic pathway for the investigation of suspected Ebola virus infection (produced by the BMJ Evidence Centre)
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References

    1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About Ebola virus disease. 2014. www.cdc.gov/.
    1. WHO. Are the Ebola outbreaks in Nigeria and Senegal over? 2014. www.who.int/.
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    1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ebola fact sheet. 2014. www.cdc.gov/.
    1. Bah EI, Lamah MC, Fletcher T, Jacob ST, Brett-Major DM, Sall AA, et al. Clinical presentation of patients with Ebola virus disease in Conakry, Guinea. N Engl J Med 2014; published online 5 Nov. 10.1056/NEJMoa1411249. - DOI - PubMed

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