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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Clinical Chemistry of Patients with Ebola in Monrovia, Liberia
Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 214, Year 2016
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Description
The development of point-of-care clinical chemistry analyzers has enabled the implementation of these ancillary tests in field laboratories in resource-limited outbreak areas. The Eternal Love Winning Africa (ELWA) outbreak diagnostic laboratory, established in Monrovia, Liberia, to provide Ebola virus and Plasmodium spp. diagnostics during the Ebola epidemic, implemented clinical chemistry analyzers in December 2014. Clinical chemistry testing was performed for 68 patients in triage, including 12 patients infected with Ebola virus and 18 infected with Plasmodium spp. The main distinguishing feature in clinical chemistry of Ebola virus-infected patients was the elevation in alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, alkaline phosphatase, and γ-glutamyltransferase levels and the decrease in calcium. The implementation of clinical chemistry is probably most helpful when the medical supportive care implemented at the Ebola treatment unit allows for correction of biochemistry derangements and on-site clinical chemistry analyzers can be used to monitor electrolyte balance. © 2016 Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2016.
Authors & Co-Authors
de Wit, Emmie
United States, Hamilton
Niaid Rocky Mountain Laboratories
Prescott, Joseph B.
United States, Hamilton
Niaid Rocky Mountain Laboratories
Rosenke, Kyle
United States, Hamilton
Niaid Rocky Mountain Laboratories
Falzarano, Darryl
United States, Hamilton
Niaid Rocky Mountain Laboratories
Marzi, Andrea
United States, Hamilton
Niaid Rocky Mountain Laboratories
Fischer, Robert J.
United States, Hamilton
Niaid Rocky Mountain Laboratories
Safronetz, David
United States, Hamilton
Niaid Rocky Mountain Laboratories
Hoenen, Thomas
United States, Hamilton
Niaid Rocky Mountain Laboratories
Groseth, Allison
United States, Hamilton
Niaid Rocky Mountain Laboratories
van Doremalen, Neeltje
United States, Hamilton
Niaid Rocky Mountain Laboratories
Bushmaker, Trenton
United States, Hamilton
Niaid Rocky Mountain Laboratories
McNally, Kristin L.
United States, Hamilton
Niaid Rocky Mountain Laboratories
Feldmann, Friederike
United States, Hamilton
Niaid Rocky Mountain Laboratories
Williamson, Brandi N.
United States, Hamilton
Niaid Rocky Mountain Laboratories
Best, Sonja M.
United States, Hamilton
Niaid Rocky Mountain Laboratories
Ebihara, Hideki
United States, Hamilton
Niaid Rocky Mountain Laboratories
Zoon, Kathryn C.
United States, Bethesda
National Institutes of Health Nih
Nyenswah, Tolbert G.
Unknown Affiliation
Bolay, Fatorma K.
United States
Liberian Institute for Biomedical Research
Massaquoi, Moses B.F.
Unknown Affiliation
Sprecher, Armand G.
Belgium, Brussels
Medecins Sans Frontieres, Brussels
Feldmann, Heinz
United States, Hamilton
Niaid Rocky Mountain Laboratories
Munster, Vincent J.
United States, Hamilton
Niaid Rocky Mountain Laboratories
Statistics
Citations: 7
Authors: 23
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1093/infdis/jiw187
ISSN:
00221899
Research Areas
Infectious Diseases
Study Locations
Liberia