Unrecognized Ebola virus infection in Guinea: complexity of surveillance in a health crisis situation: case report

The Pan African Medical Journal

Alpha Kabinet Keita¹  Mamadou Saliou Sow¹  Ibrahima Camara¹  Abdoulaye Touré¹  Salifou Talassone Bangoura¹  Alioune Camara²  Bakary Oularé³  Elhadj Ibrahima Bah³ 

[1] Centre de Recherche et de Formation en Infectiologie de Guinée (CERFIG), Université Gamal Abdel Nasser de Conakry, Guinea;Chaire de Santé Publique, Département de Pharmacie, Université Gamal Abdel Nasser de Conakry, Conakry, Guinée;Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Hôpital National Donka, CHU Conakry, Conakry, Guinea;

关键词: ebola;    case report;    guinea;   

DOI  :  10.11604/pamj.2020.36.201.24379

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The Ebola epidemic that raged in West Africa between 2013 and 2016 was the largest since the discovery of the virus in 1976. During this epidemic, more than 11,000 cases were notified with a lethality of over 67%. Several means of transmission have been described. The great difficulty noted during the epidemic was the estimation of the number of asymptomatic and paucisymptomatic cases, however there is evidence that this population has been in contact with the virus for some time. Thus, they could be a source for the spread of the epidemic. In this paper, we report in Guinea-Conakry three stories of probable pauci-symptomatic form of ebola disease that would have been the cause of massive infection in a population sorely tried by the epidemic between 2014 and 2015 in Guinea.

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