1. Dilemmas in Managing Pregnant Women With Ebola: 2 Case Reports: Table 1
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Michel Moreau, Roman Wölfel, Hassan Macpherson, Andreas Kurth, Olimpia de la Rosa, Stephan Günther, Séverine Caluwaerts, Fara Raymond Koundouno, Martin Richter, Antonino Di Caro, Joseph Akoi Bore, Christopher H. Logue, Patricia Lledo Weber, Gillian Burkhardt, Benny Borremans, Tessy Fautsch, Stephen Thomas, Elin Erland, Daphne Lagrou, Fanshen Lionetto, Eeva Kuisma, Michel Van Herp, and Alseny Modet Camara
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Microbiology (medical) ,Pregnancy ,Fetus ,medicine.medical_specialty ,030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine ,Amniotic fluid ,Ebola virus ,business.industry ,Obstetrics ,medicine.disease ,medicine.disease_cause ,3. Good health ,Sierra leone ,Miscarriage ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Infectious Diseases ,Immunology ,medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Viral disease ,Young adult ,business ,reproductive and urinary physiology - Abstract
We report 2 cases of Ebola viral disease (EVD) in pregnant women who survived, initially with intact pregnancies. Respectively 31-32 days after negativation of the maternal blood EVD-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) both patients delivered a stillborn fetus with persistent EVD-PCR amniotic fluid positivity.
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- 2015