Journal article
Lassa fever outcomes and prognostic factors in Nigeria (LASCOPE): A prospective cohort study
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Background:
Lassa fever is a viral haemorrhagic fever endemic in parts of west Africa. New treatments are needed to decrease mortality, but pretrial reference data on the disease characteristics are scarce. We aimed to document baseline characteristics and outcomes for patients hospitalised with Lassa fever in Nigeria.
Methods:
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We did a prospective cohort study (LASCOPE) at the Federal Medical Centre in Owo, Nigeria. All patients ...
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
This work was supported by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and Wellcome [215091/Z/18/Z] and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [OPP1209135]. For the purpose of Open Access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Lancet Global Health Journal website
- Volume:
- 9
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- e469-e478
- Publication date:
- 2021-03-16
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-12-03
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2214-109X
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- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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1169011
- Local pid:
- pubs:1169011
- Deposit date:
- 2021-03-23
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Duvignaud et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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