Data set on Lassa fever in post-conflict Sierra Leone.
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)
Epidemiology
Infectious disease
Lassa fever
Sierra Leone
Journal
Data in brief
ISSN: 2352-3409
Titre abrégé: Data Brief
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101654995
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Apr 2019
Apr 2019
Historique:
received:
12
10
2018
revised:
04
01
2019
accepted:
10
01
2019
entrez:
22
2
2019
pubmed:
23
2
2019
medline:
23
2
2019
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Lassa fever is a rodent-borne illness that is endemic to parts of sub-Saharan Africa, including Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and Guinea. The disease is named after the town of Lassa, Nigeria where it was discovered in 1969. This data article focuses on the epidemiology of Lassa fever in Sierra Leone following a decade-long civil war that ended in 2002. The data were collected at Kenema Government Hospital (KGH) in Kenema, Sierra Leone, which maintains the country׳s only Lassa fever treatment facility and a biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) laboratory. The key data set variables include Lassa fever serostatus determined using antigen (Ag), immunoglobulin M (IgM), and immunoglobulin G (IgG) ELISA diagnostic techniques; and patient demographics, survival outcome, and treatment (ribavirin) status. The individual data used to generate the graphs and tables in the corresponding research manuscript published in
Identifiants
pubmed: 30788396
doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.01.021
pii: S2352-3409(19)30022-8
pii: 103673
pmc: PMC6369334
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
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