Case Report: Imported Case of Lassa Fever — New Jersey, May 2015

We report a fatal case of Lassa fever diagnosed in the United States in a Liberian traveler. We describe infection control protocols and public health response. One contact at high risk became symptomatic, but her samples tested negative for Lassa virus; no secondary cases occurred among health care...

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Published in:Am J Trop Med Hyg
Main Authors: Kulkarni, Prathit A., Chew, Debra, Youssef-Bessler, Manal, Hamdi, Hanaa A., Montoya, Lindsay A., Cervantes, Kimberly B., Mazur, Nicole L., Lucas, Diana, Wells, Julia W., Cennimo, David, Sutherland, Anne, Di Domenico, Linda M., Miller, Lincoln P., Pierre-Louis, Frantz, Rokosz, Gregory, Nazir, Atif, de Perio, Marie A., Lowe, Luis, Manning, Craig, Mead, Kenneth R., Christensen, Bryan E., Albariño, César G., Ströher, Ute, Glover, Maleeka, Lifshitz, Edward I., Tan, Christina G., Rollin, Pierre E., Semple, Shereen
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Language:Inglês
Published: The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2018
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6159566/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30062993
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.17-0316
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