作者
J Daniel Kelly, Nicole A Hoff, D’Andre Spencer, Kamy Musene, Matthew S Bramble, David McIlwain, Daniel Okitundu, Travis C Porco, George W Rutherford, M Maria Glymour, Zach Bjornson, Patrick Mukadi, Emile Okitolonda-Wemakoy, Garry P Nolan, Jean Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, Anne W Rimoin
发表日期
2019/4/8
期刊
Clinical Infectious Diseases
卷号
68
期号
8
页码范围
1388-1393
出版商
Oxford University Press
简介
Background
Clinical sequelae of Ebola virus disease (EVD) have not been described more than 3 years postoutbreak. We examined survivors and close contacts from the 1995 Ebola outbreak in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and determined prevalence of abnormal neurological, cognitive, and psychological findings and their association with EVD survivorship.
Methods
From August to September 2017, we conducted a cross-sectional study in Kikwit, DRC. Over 2 decades after the EVD outbreak, we recruited EVD survivors and close contacts from the outbreak to undergo physical examination and culturally adapted versions of the Folstein mini-mental status exam (MMSE) and Goldberg anxiety and depression scale (GADS). We estimated the strength of relationships between EVD survivorship and health outcomes using linear regression models by comparing …
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