Hospital-based surveillance for viral hemorrhagic fevers and hepatitides in Ghana.

• Main Authors: Joseph Humphrey Kofi Bonney (Author), Mubarak Osei-Kwasi (Author), Theophilus Korku Adiku (Author), Jacob Samson Barnor (Author), Robert Amesiya (Author), Chrysantus Kubio (Author), Lawson Ahadzie (Author), Stephan Olschläger (Author), Michaela Lelke (Author), Beate Becker-Ziaja (Author), Meike Pahlmann (Author), Stephan Günther (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHF) are acute diseases associated with bleeding, organ failure, and shock. VHF may hardly be distinguished clinically from other diseases in the African hospital, including viral hepatitis. This study was conducted to determine if VHF and viral hepatitis contri...