Lassa Fever Immune Plasma

Abstract

During the life Contract DAMD17-85-C-5189 870 units of Lassa Fever Immune Plasma (LFIP) were obtained by plasmapheresis; 482 units were forwarded to the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID). Because of a breakdown in communications accompanying an insurgency in that country, no information about plasmapheresis in late 1989 and early 1990 is available. Before June 1989, Lassa fever (LF) was diagnosed in 198 patients with fever, 144 by virus isolation, at the Curran Lutheran Hospital (CLH) and PHEBE Hospital (PH) in Liberia. Possible Lassa Fever (PLF) was diagnosed in another 38 patients in these hospitals because of high-titer Lassa virus antibody levels in patients with single serum specimens. One case of LF and two of PLF were found in patients in three other smaller hospitals.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 31, 1990
Accession Number
ADA232145

Entities

People

  • John D. Frame

Organizations

  • Columbia University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Antibodies
  • Biomedical Research
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Health
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Infection
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Lassa Fever
  • Medical Personnel
  • New York
  • Physicians
  • Public Health
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • United States
  • Virus Diseases

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Infectious Disease/Epidemiology
  • Virology (or Medical Virology).