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Heterogeneities in the case fatality ratio in the West African Ebola outbreak 2013-2016.
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The 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the largest on record with 28 616 confirmed, probable and suspected cases and 11 310 deaths officially recorded by 10 June 2016, the true burden probably considerably higher. The case fatality ratio (CFR: proportion of cases that are fatal) is a key indicator of disease severity useful for gauging the appropriate public health response and for evaluating treatment benefits, if estimated accurately. We analysed individual-level clinical outcome da...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1098/rstb.2016.0308
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World Health Organisation
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Royal Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Journal website
- Volume:
- 372
- Issue:
- 1721
- Pages:
- 1-9
- Publication date:
- 2017-05-26
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-11-11
- DOI:
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1471-2970
- ISSN:
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0962-8436
- Source identifiers:
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689364
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- English
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- pubs:689364
- Deposit date:
- 2017-04-26
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- © 2017 Garske, et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- © 2017 Garske, et al. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
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