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Table 1 Ebola haemorrhagic fever case definitions, Masindi/Uganda 2000

From: Ebola haemorrhagic fever outbreak in Masindi District, Uganda: outbreak description and lessons learned

Term

Used by

To decide on

Criteria

Alert case

Community members, health care workers not directly involved in EHF response

Alert mobile surveillance team?

A1 Any person with sudden onset of fever

A2 Any person with haemorrhage

A3 Any sudden death

Suspect case

Mobile surveillance team

Transport to hospital?

S1 Any person who [had slept in the same house as a case, or had touched the body of a case (dead or alive), or had touched linens or body fluids of a case] AND has fever

S2 Any person who has at least three of the following symptoms:

[headache, nausea/vomiting, loss of appetite, diarrhoea, intense fatigue, abdominal pain, muscle or joint pain, difficulty with swallowing, difficulty with breathing, hiccup] AND has fever

S3 Any person with any of the following symptoms:

bleeding gums, bleeding into the eyes, bleeding into the skin, black or bloody stool, bloody vomit, nose bleed

Probable case

Clinicians of isolation unit

Isolate patient and take blood sample for EHF testing?

As for suspect case, plus not explicitly defined clinical criteria for differential diagnoses

Confirmed case

Clinicians of isolation unit

Transfer patient to confirmed case section within Ebola ward?

C1 A probable case with a positive Ebola antigen capture ELISA or PCR

C2 A probable case with prior contact to another confirmed case and positive for anti-Ebola IgG ELISA