Electroencephalography in emerging viral infections: Lessons learned from implementing an EEG unit in a Lassa fever isolation ward in Nigeria

• Hannah Caroline Sophie Mueller ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hannah Caroline Sophie Mueller, Cyril Oshomah Erameh

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hannah.mueller@bnitm.de

  Affiliations Department of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Virology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9129-609X

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• Cyril Oshomah Erameh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hannah Caroline Sophie Mueller, Cyril Oshomah Erameh

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Viral and Emergent Pathogens Control and Research, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria, Department of Medicine, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria

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• Mathias Gelderblom,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Osahogie Isaac Edeawe,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Viral and Emergent Pathogens Control and Research, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria, Department of Medicine, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Nigeria

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• Osetohamen Grace Akpasubi,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria

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• Ekpen Uwayeme Ekoyata,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria

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• Ujiagbe Moses Aiterebhe,

  Roles Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Institute of Viral and Emergent Pathogens Control and Research, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria

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• Joseph Okoeguale,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Viral and Emergent Pathogens Control and Research, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria

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• Stephan Guenther,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Virology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research, Partner Sites Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Germany

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• Lisa Oestereich,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources

  Affiliations Department of Virology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research, Partner Sites Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Germany

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• Michael Ramharter,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research, Partner Sites Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Germany

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• Sylvanus Okogbenin ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SO and TO also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Institute of Viral and Emergent Pathogens Control and Research, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria

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• Till Omansen

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SO and TO also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Virology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research, Partner Sites Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Germany

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