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The Dilemma in the Management of an Asymptomatic Patient with Confirmed Lassa Fever Viremia (a Case Report): Implication for Policy Action in the Control of Infectious Diseases of Public Health Importance in Nigeria

Background: Lassa fever is a potentially deadly viral haemorrhagic fever especially if the patient is not seen early enough for treatment. This report aims to present the faced regarding the settlement of the cost of treatment in a positive asymptomatic case. Case report: The case, a 22-year old student, was accidentally found to be positive to the RT-PCR test for Lassa fever though he was asymptomatic. He was then admitted into the isolation ward for ribavirin treatment. Apart from being a student, he had just lost his mother to Lassa fever disease; he partook in the nursing of his late mothe…

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Source	Internet Archive
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	Chukwuyem Abejegah et al. 2019
Date	2019-07-17
Type	texts
Details	ia title
Found at	https://archive.org/details/chukwuyem-abejegah-et-al.-2019
Archived copy	Look it up in the Wayback Machine
Record ID	`internet-archive:chukwuyem-abejegah-et-al.-2019`

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The Dilemma in the Management of an Asymptomatic Patient with Confirmed Lassa Fever Viremia (a Case Report): Implication for Policy Action in the Control of Infectious Diseases of Public Health Importance in Nigeria. Internet Archive, 2019. Vero Archive, record internet-archive:chukwuyem-abejegah-et-al.-2019.