作者
Esper G Kallas, Luiz Gonzaga FAB D'Elia Zanella, Carlos Henrique V Moreira, Renata Buccheri, Gabriela BF Diniz, Anna Carla P Castiñeiras, Priscilla R Costa, Juliana ZC Dias, Mariana P Marmorato, Alice TW Song, Alvino Maestri, Igor C Borges, Daniel Joelsons, Natalia B Cerqueira, Nathália C Santiago e Souza, Ingra Morales Claro, Ester C Sabino, José Eduardo Levi, Vivian I Avelino-Silva, Yeh-Li Ho
发表日期
2019/7/1
期刊
The Lancet infectious diseases
卷号
19
期号
7
页码范围
750-758
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Background
Yellow fever virus infection results in death in around 30% of symptomatic individuals. The aim of this study was to identify predictors of death measured at hospital admission in a cohort of patients admitted to hospital during the 2018 outbreak of yellow fever in the outskirts of São Paulo city, Brazil.
Methods
In this observational cohort study, we enrolled patients with yellow fever virus from two hospitals in São Paolo—the Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo and the Infectious Diseases Institute "Emilio Ribas". Patients older than 18 years admitted to hospital with fever or myalgia, headache, arthralgia, oedema, rash, or conjunctivitis were consecutively screened for inclusion in the present study. Consenting patients were included if they had travelled to geographical areas in which yellow fever virus cases had been previously confirmed. Yellow fever infection was confirmed by real-time PCR in …
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