Mortality among PCR negative admitted Ebola suspects during the 2014/15 outbreak in Conakry, Guinea: A retrospective cohort study

Brecht Ingelbeen; Elhadj Ibrahima Bah; Tom Decroo; Idrissa Balde; Helena Nordenstedt; Johan van Griensven; Anja De Weggheleire

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0180070

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Mortality among PCR negative admitted Ebola suspects during the 2014/15 outbreak in Conakry, Guinea: A retrospective cohort study

Brecht Ingelbeen ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: brechtingelbeen@gmail.com

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Brussels, Conakry, Guinea

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2214-6858

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Elhadj Ibrahima Bah,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Brussels, Conakry, Guinea, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Donka, Conakry, Guinea
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Tom Decroo,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Brussels, Operational Research Unit, Brussels, Belgium
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Idrissa Balde,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Brussels, Conakry, Guinea, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Donka, Conakry, Guinea
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Helena Nordenstedt,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Brussels, Conakry, Guinea, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Johan van Griensven,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Sciences Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
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Anja De Weggheleire

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Sciences Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
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Mortality among PCR negative admitted Ebola suspects during the 2014/15 outbreak in Conakry, Guinea: A retrospective cohort study

Brecht Ingelbeen,
Elhadj Ibrahima Bah,
Tom Decroo,
Idrissa Balde,
Helena Nordenstedt,
Johan van Griensven,
Anja De Weggheleire

Published: June 30, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180070

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