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

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Kulkarni, Prathit A. [1 ,2 ]
Chew, Debra [4 ,5 ]
Youssef-Bessler, Manal [6 ]
Hamdi, Hanaa A. [7 ]
Montoya, Lindsay A. [1 ]
Cervantes, Kimberly B. [1 ]
Mazur, Nicole L. [1 ]
Lucas, Diana [1 ]
Wells, Julia W. [1 ]
Cennimo, David [4 ,5 ]
Sutherland, Anne [4 ,5 ]
Di Domenico, Linda M. [5 ]
Miller, Lincoln P. [6 ]
Pierre-Louis, Frantz [6 ]
Rokosz, Gregory [6 ]
Nazir, Atif [7 ]
de Perio, Marie A. [3 ]
Lowe, Luis [2 ]
Manning, Craig [2 ]
Mead, Kenneth R. [3 ]
Christensen, Bryan E. [2 ]
Albarino, Cesar G. [2 ]
Stroher, Ute [2 ]
Glover, Maleeka [2 ]
Lifshitz, Edward I. [1 ]
Tan, Christina G. [1 ]
Rollin, Pierre E. [2 ]
Semple, Shereen [1 ]
机构
[1] New Jersey Dept Hlth, Communicable Dis Serv, Trenton, NJ USA
[2] Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, Atlanta, GA USA
[3] Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, Cincinnati, OH USA
[4] Rutgers New Jersey Med Sch, Dept Med, Newark, NJ USA
[5] Univ Hosp, Newark, NJ USA
[6] St Barnabas Hosp, Livingston, NJ USA
[7] Newark Dept Hlth & Community Wellness, Newark, NJ USA
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10.4269/ajtmh.17-0316
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R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
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摘要
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.
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