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PAEDIATRICS AND INTERNATIONAL CHILD HEALTH
卷 41, 期 1, 页码 12-27出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/20469047.2020.1805260
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Ebola virus disease; children; EVD; paediatrics; infection prevention and control; clinical management
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The article discusses the epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and laboratory findings of pediatric Ebola virus disease, as well as the unique challenges and psychosocial anthropological factors that need to be considered in pediatric care.
Ebola virus (EBOV) causes an extremely contagious viral haemorrhagic fever associated with high mortality. While, historically, children have represented a small number of total cases of Ebolavirus disease (EVD), in recent outbreaks up to a quarter of cases have been in children. They pose unique challenges in clinical management and infection prevention and control. In this review of paediatric EVD, the epidemiology of past EVD outbreaks with specific focus on children is discussed, the clinical manifestations and laboratory findings are described and key developments in clinical management including specific topics such as viral persistence and breastfeeding while considering unique psychosocial and anthropological considerations for paediatric care including of survivors and orphans and the stigma they face are discussed. In addition to summarising the literature, perspectives based on the authors' experience of EVD outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are described.
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