Brown Colin S, Mepham Stephen, Shorten Robert J
Weston Education Centre, King's Sierra Leone Partnership, King's Centre for Global Health, King's Health Partners, King's College London, London SE5 9RJ, UK; National Infection Service, Public Health England, London, UK.
Department of Infection, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Clin Lab Med. 2017 Jun;37(2):269-284. doi: 10.1016/j.cll.2017.01.003.
The 2014 to 2016 Ebola virus disease (EVD), through the sheer size of the outbreak and combined experience within both resource-rich and resource-poor settings, allowed for more information to be gained about the clinical and pathologic features of EVD. This review highlights the range of aspects of EVD that the authors find are relevant to laboratory medicine, including the need for robust prediagnostic and laboratory processing algorithms to inform sampling of suspect patients, the vast majority of whom, in resource-rich settings, will have another diagnosis.
