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Review
. 2017 Jun;37(2):269-284.
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 S Brown  1 , Stephen Mepham  2 , Robert J Shorten  3
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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

Colin S Brown et al. Clin Lab Med. 2017 Jun.

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.

Keywords: Ebola; Preparedness; Safety; Viral hemorrhagic fever.

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