Case Report: Imported Case of Lassa Fever – New Jersey, May 2015

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• Personal Author:
  Albariño CG ; Cennimo D ; Cervantes KB ; Chew D ; Christensen BE ; De Perio, Marie A. ; Di Domenico LM ; Glover M ; Hamdi HA ; Kulkarni PA ; Lifshitz E ; Lowe L ; Lucas D ; Manning C ; Mazur NL ; Mead, Kenneth R. ; Miller LP ; Montoya LA ; Nazir A ; Pierre-Louis F ; Rokosz G ; Rollin PE ; Semple S ; Ströher U ; Sutherland A ; Tan CG ; Wells JW ; Youssef-Bessler M
• Description:
  We report a fatal case of Lassa fever diagnosed in the United States in a Liberian traveler. We describe infection control protocols and public health response. One contact at high risk became symptomatic, but her samples tested negative for Lassa virus; no secondary cases occurred among health care, family, and community contacts. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Communicable Diseases Diagnosis Mortality Occupational Health Public Health Race Factors Safety Viral Diseases
• Keywords:
  Case Reports Clinical Diagnosis Control Methods Disease Control Fatalities Guidelines Health Care Health Protection Hemorrhagic Fever Humans Infection Control Infectious Diseases Public Health Racial Factors Viral Diseases Viral Infections

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• ISSN:
  0002-9637
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; New Jersey ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 6 ; Texas
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies ; DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  99
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20052416
• Citation:
  Am J Trop Med Hyg 2018 Oct; 99(4):1062-1065
• Contact Point Address:
  Prathit A. Kulkarni, Infectious Diseases Section, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, MS: BCM-285, Houston, TX 77030
• Email:
  prathit.kulkarni@bcm.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• NORA Priority Area:
  Services ; Oil and Gas Extraction
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:766716af9a33f0197acca2b25532d796668e0372212aa673e6aae902ee63f96f5f68762476c0364300be361fbb290e95e1f0df09a4daf4d0288619ad726b1cfe
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/211943/cdc_211943_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 71.64 KB ]