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Ocular Complications in Survivors of the Ebola Outbreak in Guinea.
Esther Hereth-Hebert
1 ,
Mamadou Oury Bah
2 ,
Jean François Etard
3 ,
Mamadou Saliou Sow
4 ,
Serge Resnikoff
5 ,
Christine Fardeau
6 ,
Abdoulaye Toure
7 ,
Alexis Niouma Ouendeno
2 ,
Isaac Ceougna Sagno
8 ,
Laura March
3 ,
Suzanne Izard
3 ,
Pierre Louis Lama
2 ,
Moumié Barry
4 ,
Eric Delaporte
3
Mar 2017
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Abstract
The Ebola outbreak of 2013-2016 severely affected West Africa and resulted in 2544 deaths and 1270 survivors in Guinea, the country where it began. This Ebola virus was the Zaire strain of the virus family Filoviridae. In this outbreak the case fatality rate was about 67%. The survivors, declared cured after 2 negative blood polymerase chain reaction (PCR) results, face psychosocial disorders and rheumatic, ear-nose-throat, neurocognitive, and ophthalmologic complications. The goal of this study was to detect and describe ocular complications afflicting these survivors and to observe their occurrence and recurrences.