Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Raabe, Vanessa N.
• Kann, Gerrit
• Ribner, Bruce S.
• Morales, Andres
• Varkey, Jay B.
• Mehta, Aneesh K.
• Lyon, G. Marshall
• Vanairsdale, Sharon
• Faber, Kelly
• Becker, Stephan
• Eickmann, Markus
• Strecker, Thomas
• Brown, Shelley
• Patel, Ketan
• De Leuw, Philipp
• Schuettfort, Gundolf
• Stephan, Christoph
• Rabenau, Holger
• Klena, John D.
• Rollin, Pierre E.
• McElroy, Anita
• Ströher, Ute
• Nichol, Stuart
• Kraft, Colleen S.
• Wolf, Timo

Titel

Favipiravir and Ribavirin Treatment of Epidemiologically Linked Cases of Lassa Fever

Ist Teil von

• Clinical infectious diseases, 2017-09, Vol.65 (5), p.855-859

Ort / Verlag

United States: Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Oxford Journals 2020 Medicine

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Two patients with Lassa fever are described who are the first human cases treated with a combination of ribavirin and favipiravir. Both patients survived but developed transaminitis and had prolonged detectable virus RNA in blood and semen, suggesting that the possibility of sexual transmission of Lassa virus should be considered.