Predicting Ebola infection: A malaria-sensitive triage score for Ebola virus disease.

• Main Authors: Mary-Anne Hartley (Author), Alyssa Young (Author), Anh-Minh Tran (Author), Harry Henry Okoni-Williams (Author), Mohamed Suma (Author), Brooke Mancuso (Author), Ahmed Al-Dikhari (Author), Mohamed Faouzi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:The non-specific symptoms of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) pose a major problem to triage and isolation efforts at Ebola Treatment Centres (ETCs). Under the current triage protocol, half the patients allocated to high-risk "probable" wards were EVD(-): a misclassification speculated...