H00283 | |
H number | H00283 |
Name | Ebola disease; Ebola hemorrhagic fever |
Description | Ebola disease, also known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is a deadly infectious disease caused by ebolaviruses within the genus Ebolavirus in the family Filoviridae of -ssRNA viruses. Four ebolavirus are known to cause Ebola, and a related virus in Filoviridae causes Marburg disease. The first ebolavirus was discovered in 1976 in South Sudan. |
Category | Viral infectious disease |
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Pathogen | Zaire ebolavirus [GN:T40012] (Zaire, 1976) Sudan ebolavirus [GN:T40014] (Sudan, 1976) Tai Forest ebolavirus [GN:T40125] (Cote d'Ivoire, 1994) Bundibugyo virus [GN:T40121] (Uganda, 2007) |
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Carcinogen | - |
Drug | Ansuvimab [DR:D11875] Atoltivimab, maftivimab and odesivimab [DR:D11922] |
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Other DBs | ICD-11: 1D60.0 ICD-10: A98.4 MeSH: D019142 MedlinePlus: 001339 |
Reference | PMID:21084112 AUTHORS Feldmann H, Geisbert TW TITLE Ebola haemorrhagic fever. JOURNAL Lancet 377:849-62 (2011) DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60667-8 PMID:12000905 AUTHORS Bruce J, Brysiewicz P TITLE Ebola fever: the African emergency. JOURNAL Int J Trauma Nurs 8:36-41 (2002) DOI:10.1067/mtn.2002.123083 |