PMID- 9988169

OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19990225
LR - 20041117
IS - 0022-1899 (Print)
IS - 0022-1899 (Linking)
VI - 179 Suppl 1
DP - 1999 Feb
TI - Transmission of Ebola hemorrhagic fever: a study of risk factors in family
members,
Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1995. Commission de Lutte contre
les
Epidémies à Kikwit.
PG - S87-91
AB - The surviving members of 27 households in which someone had been infected
with Ebola
virus were interviewed in order to define the modes of transmission of Ebola
hemorrhagic fever (EHF). Of 173 household contacts of the primary cases, 28
(16%)
developed EHF. All secondary cases had direct physical contact with the ill
person
(rate ratio [RR], undefined; P < .001), and among those with direct contact,
exposure to body fluids conferred additional risk (RR, 3.6; 95% confidence
interval
[CI], 1.9-6.8). After adjusting for direct contact and exposure to body
fluids,
adult family members, those who touched the cadaver, and those who were
exposed
during the late hospital phase were at additional risk. None of the 78
household
members who had no physical contact with the case during the clinical illness
were
infected (upper 95% CI, 4%). EHF is transmitted principally by direct
physical
contact with an ill person or their body fluids during the later stages of
illness.
FAU - Dowell, S F
AU - Dowell SF
AD - Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA. SFD2@cdc.gov
FAU - Mukunu, R
AU - Mukunu R
FAU - Ksiazek, T G
AU - Ksiazek TG
FAU - Khan, A S
AU - Khan AS
FAU - Rollin, P E
AU - Rollin PE
FAU - Peters, C J
AU - Peters CJ
LA - eng
PT - Journal Article
PL - United States
TA - J Infect Dis
JT - The Journal of infectious diseases
JID - 0413675
SB - IM
MH - Adult
MH - Body Fluids/virology
MH - Contact Tracing
MH - Democratic Republic of the Congo/epidemiology
MH - *Disease Outbreaks
MH - Family
MH - Female
MH - Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola/*epidemiology/*transmission/virology
MH - Housing
MH - Humans
MH - Male
MH - Risk Factors
EDAT- 1999/02/13 00:00
MHDA- 1999/02/13 00:01
CRDT- 1999/02/13 00:00
PHST- 1999/02/13 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1999/02/13 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1999/02/13 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1086/514284 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO - J Infect Dis. 1999 Feb;179 Suppl 1:S87-91. doi: 10.1086/514284.