Lassa Fever Immune Plasma

Abstract

During the year the Field Investigator, Mr. J.E. Yalley-Ogunro, emigrated to the United States; at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, he isolated Lassa virus (LV) from 85 patients whose specimens has been accumulating there over an 18 month period. In this absence from Liberia the Clinical Investigator, Dr. Andrew Cole, assumed many of Mr. Yalley-Ogunro's responsibilities. However, serological testing for LV antibodies by the indirect fluorescent antibody test was suspended; the technologist chosen to perform this test proved to be personally unreliable, and was dismissed. The loss of another technologist, that a Phebe Hospital (PH), coincided with a marked increase in the number of Lassa Fever cases in the institution, and resulted in state of disarray in the program there. Keywords: Lassa fever, Lassa virus, Plasma, Human, Immunotherapy, Liberia.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 31, 1989
Accession Number
ADA224131

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People

  • John D. Frame

Organizations

  • Columbia University

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Antibodies
  • Biomedical Research
  • Clinical Laboratory Techniques (Medicine)
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • Immunoglobulins
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Lassa Fever
  • Medical Personnel
  • New York
  • Physicians
  • Serodiagnosis
  • Technical Information Centers
  • United States
  • Universities
  • Viruses

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  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
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