Lujo hemorrhagic fever

Orpha code: 319213OMIM code:

Definicja

Lujo hemorrhagic fever, caused by the Lujo virus (a newly discovered Old World arenavirus) is a zoonotic disease from Zambia, Africa, whose reservoir is unknown and is characterized by fever and hemorrhagic manifestations with an extremely high fatality rate of 80% (in the 5 reported cases to date) and a moderate to high level of nosocomial transmission.

Disease data
Klasyfikacja

Disease

Synonimy
Zambian hemorrhagic fever
Zambijska gorączka krwotoczna
Kod ORPHA
319213
Kod OMIM
-
Kod ICD10
A96.8
Kod ICD11
-

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