Early-onset sensorineural hearing loss in Lassa fever.

PubWeight™: 0.91‹?›

🔗 View Article (PMID 20809263)

Published in Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol on September 01, 2010

Authors

T S Ibekwe1, P O Okokhere, D Asogun, F F Blackie, M M Nwegbu, K W Wahab, S A Omilabu, G O Akpede

Author Affiliations

1: Lassa Fever Research and Diagnostic Centre, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria. ibekwets@yahoo.com

Articles cited by this

Lassa fever, a new virus disease of man from West Africa. I. Clinical description and pathological findings. Am J Trop Med Hyg (1970) 4.96

Lassa virus isolation from Mastomys natalensis rodents during an epidemic in Sierra Leone. Science (1974) 3.86

Review of cases of nosocomial Lassa fever in Nigeria: the high price of poor medical practice. BMJ (1995) 3.21

Clinical virology of Lassa fever in hospitalized patients. J Infect Dis (1987) 2.94

Uses and abuses of hearing loss classification. ASHA (1981) 2.80

New opportunities for field research on the pathogenesis and treatment of Lassa fever. Antiviral Res (2007) 2.47

Risk maps of Lassa fever in West Africa. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2009) 2.33

Lassa fever: epidemiology, clinical features, and social consequences. BMJ (2003) 2.06

Acute sensorineural deafness in Lassa fever. JAMA (1990) 2.02

Lassa fever in West African sub-region: an overview. J Vector Borne Dis (2007) 1.86

Monitoring of clinical and laboratory data in two cases of imported Lassa fever. Microbes Infect (2002) 1.71

Historical Lassa fever reports and 30-year clinical update. Emerg Infect Dis (2006) 1.67

Diagnosis and clinical virology of Lassa fever as evaluated by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, indirect fluorescent-antibody test, and virus isolation. J Clin Microbiol (2000) 1.63

Detection of Lassa virus RNA in specimens from patients with Lassa fever by using the polymerase chain reaction. J Clin Microbiol (1990) 1.61

Audiometric comparison of Lassa fever hearing loss and idiopathic sudden hearing loss: evidence for viral cause. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg (1992) 1.58

Lassa fever encephalopathy: Lassa virus in cerebrospinal fluid but not in serum. J Infect Dis (2001) 1.40

A fatal case of Lassa fever in London, January 2009. Euro Surveill (2009) 1.40

Recent isolations of Lassa virus from Nigerian rodents. Bull World Health Organ (1975) 1.31

Lassa fever, Nigeria, 2003 and 2004. Emerg Infect Dis (2005) 1.28

Prognostic model for predicting hearing recovery in idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss. Otol Neurotol (2008) 1.11

Idiopathic sudden hearing loss: contradictory clinical evidence, placebo effects and high spontaneous recovery rate--where do we stand in assessing treatment outcomes? Acta Otolaryngol (2006) 0.96

Deafness associated with Lassa fever. JAMA (1990) 0.92

Lassa virus: seroepidemiological survey of rodents caught in Ekpoma and environs. Trop Doct (2005) 0.88

Management of viral haemorrhagic fevers in Switzerland. Euro Surveill (2002) 0.87

A survey for antibodies to Lassa virus among health workers in Nigeria. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg (1997) 0.84

Management of viral haemorrhagic fever in the Netherlands. Euro Surveill (2002) 0.83

Update on emerging infections: news from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Imported Lassa fever--New Jersey, 2004. Ann Emerg Med (2005) 0.83

Sensorineural hearing loss in Lassa fever: two case reports. J Med Case Rep (2009) 0.81

Biochemistry of endolymph, perilymph and cerebrospinal fluid. J Laryngol Otol (1953) 0.77

Management of Lassa fever in European countries. Euro Surveill (2002) 0.75

[Important issues of biological safety]. Vestn Ross Akad Med Nauk (2007) 0.75

[Countermeasure against viral hemorrhagic fever at the border in Japan]. Nihon Rinsho (2005) 0.75

Articles by these authors

Unusually severe course of tetanus in a vaccinated child with sickle cell disease. Lancet (1992) 2.03

Molecular epidemiology of Nigerian and Ghanaian measles virus isolates reveals a genotype circulating widely in western and central Africa. J Gen Virol (1999) 1.27

Prevalence of rotavirus-induced diarrhea among children under 5 years in Ilorin, Nigeria. J Trop Pediatr (2008) 1.05

Genotypic and antigenic characterization of hemagglutinin proteins of African measles virus isolates. Virus Res (1999) 0.98

Prevalence and antimicrobial sensitivity pattern in urinary tract infection in febrile under-5s at a children's emergency unit in Nigeria. Ann Trop Paediatr (2003) 0.95

Viral diarrhoea in young children in two districts in Nigeria. Cent Afr J Med (2003) 0.90

Haematological profile of healthy pregnant women in Ibadan, south-western Nigeria. J Obstet Gynaecol (2006) 0.89

Zoonotic infections in Nigeria: overview from a medical perspective. Acta Trop (2000) 0.89

Pattern and outcome of congenital malformations in newborn babies in a Nigerian teaching hospital. West Afr J Med (2010) 0.88

Prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus types 1 and 2 infections in Nigeria. J Infect Dis (1993) 0.88

Complement fixing antibodies against arboviruses in horses at Lagos, Nigeria. Rev Elev Med Vet Pays Trop (1989) 0.86

Cytomegalovirus antibodies in Nigeria. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg (1990) 0.84

A survey for haemagglutination-inhibiting antibody to West Nile virus in human and animal sera in Nigeria. Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis (1990) 0.81

Viral isolates of intussusception in Nigerian infants. S Afr J Surg (2002) 0.80

Prenatal diagnoses of cytomegalovirus (CMV), rubella, toxoplasmosis, varicella, parvovirus, herpes simplex and syphilis. the Lagos programme experience. Clin Exp Obstet Gynecol (2010) 0.80

Cytomegalovirus infection among tuberculosis patients in a chest hospital in Nigeria. Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis (1990) 0.79

Psychiatric morbidity in stroke patients attending a neurology clinic in Nigeria. Afr Health Sci (2013) 0.79

Haemagglutination-inhibiting (HI) antibodies against strains of influenza A virus in horse and pig sera in Nigeria. J Hyg Epidemiol Microbiol Immunol (1990) 0.76

The relationship between gallstone disease and gall bladder volume. Niger J Clin Pract (2008) 0.76

Wesselsbron virus antibody in domestic animals in Nigeria: retrospective and prospective studies. New Microbiol (1995) 0.75

Intracardiac tumor: a risk factor for stroke in the young--a case report. Niger J Clin Pract (2008) 0.75

Paediatric and teenage gynaecological disorders in northern Nigeria. Ann Trop Paediatr (1997) 0.75

Occult bacteraemia in a malarious area: presenting features and antimicrobial susceptibility. J Trop Pediatr (1993) 0.75

Haemagglutination-inhibiting antibodies against influenza A and B in human sera collected from five ecological zones in Nigeria. J Hyg Epidemiol Microbiol Immunol (1991) 0.75

Seroprevalence of hepatitis B virus infection among pregnant women at the antenatal booking clinic of a Tertiary Hospital in Lagos Nigeria. Niger J Clin Pract (2015) 0.75

Cryptococcal meningitis in a newly diagnosed AIDS patient: a case report. West Afr J Med (2010) 0.75

Detection of avian influenza virus from fecal samples of poultry birds in Lagos State. Afr J Med Med Sci (2014) 0.75

Efficacy of HIV PCR techniques to diagnose HIV in infants born to HIV infected mothers at LASUTH. Nig Q J Hosp Med (2010) 0.75

Severe post-vaccination reaction to 17D yellow fever vaccine in Nigeria. Rev Roum Virol (1995) 0.75

Interferon-gamma in suppurative otitis media: significance of otorrhoea type and disease outcome. J Laryngol Otol (2009) 0.75

Growth of Igbo-Ora virus in some tissue cultures. Acta Virol (1990) 0.75

PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN A NIGERIAN NEUROLOGY CLINIC. East Afr Med J (2012) 0.75

Stroke in young adults: report of three cases and review of literature. Niger Postgrad Med J (2006) 0.75

Igbo-Ora virus (an alphavirus isolated in Nigeria): a serological survey for haemagglutination inhibiting antibody in humans and domestic animals. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg (1988) 0.75

Seroprevalence of other antibodies (herpes, CMV, rubella, varicella, hepatitis B and C, syphilis, chlamydia, mumps, toxoplasmosis) in HIV-positive patients. Clin Exp Obstet Gynecol (2011) 0.75

Complement fixing antibodies against selected viruses in diabetic patients and non-diabetic control subjects in Ibadan, Nigeria. Rev Roum Virol (1993) 0.75

Serological evidence for influenza virus activity in Nigeria (1985-1987). Virologie (1989) 0.75

Isolation and identification of African horse sickness virus during an outbreak in Lagos, Nigeria. Rev Sci Tech (1993) 0.75

Observations on very high-dose steroid therapy in nephrotic syndrome. Acta Paediatr (1993) 0.75

Measles HI-antibody levels in Lagos children, Nigeria: a follow-up study to resurgence of measles in Lagos metropolis. West Afr J Med (2002) 0.75

Preliminary assessment of the efficacy of mefloquine/-sulphadoxine/ pyrimethamine combination in the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in children in North Eastern Nigeria. Afr J Med Med Sci (2001) 0.75

Wesselsbron virus infection in West African dwarf goats (Fouta djallon): virological and immunological studies. Acta Virol (1989) 0.75

1987 yellow fever epidemics in Oyo State, Nigeria: a survey for yellow fever virus haemagglutination inhibiting antibody in residents of two communities before and after the epidemics. Virologie (1989) 0.75