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Volume 22, Number 9—September 2016
Research

Ebola Virus Disease, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2014

Carolina Nanclares, Jimmy Kapetshi, Fanshen Lionetto, Olimpia de la Rosa, Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfun, Miriam Alia, Gary Kobinger, and Andrea BernasconiComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Médecins Sans Frontières, Barcelona, Spain (C. Nanclares, F. Lionetto, O. de la Rosa, M. Alia, A. Bernasconi); Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasha, Democratic Republic of the Congo (J. Kapetshi, J.-J. Muyembe Tamfun); Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (G. Kobinger); Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland (A. Bernasconi); University of Basel, Basel (A. Bernasconi)

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Table 2

Symptoms and signs, and their prediction for death, among patients admitted to 2 Ebola treatment centers during the Ebola virus disease outbreak, Lokolia and Boende, Democrtic Republic of the Congo, July–November 2014

Hemorrhagic signs
>1 of the signs below 2 (15. 4) 5 (41.7) 7 (28.0) 71.4 1.83 (0.87–3.87) 0.2
Bloody feces 1 (7.7) 4 (33.3) 5 (20.0) 80.0 2 (1–3.9) 0.16
Hematemesis 0 3 (25.0) 3 (12.0) 100.0 2.44 (1.48–4.04) 0.09
Red eyes/subconjunctival hemorrhage 1 (7.7) 1 (8.3) 2 (8.0) 50.0 1 (0.24–4.45) 1
Epistaxis 0 1 (8.3) 1 (4.0) 100.0 2.18 (1.41–3.37) 0.48
Gingival/oral bleeding 0 1 (8.3) 1 (4.0) 100.0 2.18 (1.41–3.37) 0.48
Nonmenstrual vaginal bleeding 0 1 (8.3) 1 (4.0) 100.0 2.18 (1.41–3.37) 0.48

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