Caseload and Case Fatality of Lassa Fever in Nigeria, 2001–2018: A Specialist Center's Experience and Its Implications
- 1Institute of Lassa Fever Research and Control, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria
- 2Department of Paediatrics, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria
- 3Department of Community Medicine, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria
- 4Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria
- 5Department of Surgery, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria
- 6Department of Nursing Services, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria
- 7Department of Medical Records, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria
- 8Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria
- 9Department of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I. Department of Medicine University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
- 10Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
- 11Department of Biological Sciences and African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases, Redeemer's University, Ede, Nigeria
- 12Department of Virology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
- 13Department of Microbiology, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Nigeria
A Corrigendum on
Caseload and Case Fatality of Lassa Fever in Nigeria, 2001–2018: A Specialist Center's Experience and Its Implications
by Akpede, G. O., Asogun, D. A., Okogbenin, S. A., Dawodu, S. O., Momoh, M. O., Dongo, A. E., et al. (2019). Front. Public Health 7:170. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00170
Two author names were incorrectly spelled as “Pardis C. Sarbeti” and “Ekene Muebonam”. The correct spelling is “Pardis C. Sabeti” and “Ekene Muoebonam”.
The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.
Keywords: case fatality, caseload, center's experience, implications, Lassa fever, outbreaks, Nigeria, trends
Citation: Akpede GO, Asogun DA, Okogbenin SA, Dawodu SO, Momoh MO, Dongo AE, Ike C, Tobin E, Akpede N, Ogbaini-Emovon E, Adewale AE, Ochei O, Onyeke F, Okonofua MO, Atafo RO, Odia I, Adomeh DI, Odigie G, Ogbeifun C, Muoebonam E, Ihekweazu C, Ramharter M, Colubri A, Sabeti PC, Happi CT, Günther S and Agbonlahor DE (2019) Corrigendum: Caseload and Case Fatality of Lassa Fever in Nigeria, 2001–2018: A Specialist Center's Experience and Its Implications. Front. Public Health 7:251. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00251
Received: 30 July 2019; Accepted: 20 August 2019;
Published: 13 September 2019.
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