Association of Lower Exposure Risk With Paucisymptomatic/Asymptomatic Infection, Less Severe Disease, and Unrecognized Ebola Virus Disease: A Seroepidemiological Study.

J Daniel KellyRaphael G FrankfurterJacqueline M TavsMohamed Bailor BarrieTimothy McGinnisMohamed KamaraAdams FreemanKomba QuiwahMichelle C DavidsonBonnie Dighero-KempHarrison GichiniElizabeth ElliottCavan ReillyLisa E HensleyH Clifford LaneSheri D WeiserTravis C PorcoGeorge W RutherfordEugene T Richardson

Published in: Open forum infectious diseases (2022)

This community-based study of EVD cases and contacts provides epidemiological evidence of a dose-dependent relationship between exposure risk and severity of illness, which may partially explain why pauci-/asymptomatic EBOV infection, less severe disease, and unrecognized EVD occurs.

Keyphrases

healthcare
early onset
drug induced