Lassa Fever Immune Plasma.
Abstract
Collection of Lassa Fever Plasma Units has continued with collection of 79 units of the 100 projected for 1983. 52 units have been forwarded to USAMRIID. Identification of Lassa Fever (LF) patients has continued at Curran Lutheran (CLH) and Phebe (PH) Hospitals, and to some extent in other hospitals as well. 15 LF cases and 9 presumptive cases were diagnosed at CLH; of 88 patients in whom virus was isolated in 10. At PH, six of 52 consecutive febrile patients had LF; virus isolation has not been performed as yet in these and other patients from whom serum has been obtained. Village surveys in Kolahun District showed prevalences of Lassa virus antibodies of 6.2% and 8.6%, at screening titers of 1:8. An ultra freezer has been purchased for CLH to permit more adequate determination of the degree of viremia as the basis for future investgations of the clinical efficacy of LFIP. Plans are under way to obtain a refrigerated centrifuge and ultra-freezer for PH so that it can become a second field station for plasmapheresis and for clinical investigations. Originator-supplied keywords include: Lassa Fever, Lassa Fever, Epidemiology of, Lassa Fever Immune Plasma, Lassa Fever, Immunology, Lassa Fever, Occurance of, Liberia, Lassa Fever in, Plasmapheresis.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1983
- Accession Number
- ADA152365
Entities
People
- J. D. Frame
Organizations
- Columbia University