Letter to the EditorHigh heart rate at admission as a predictive factor of mortality in hospitalized patients with Lassa fever: An observational cohort study in Sierra Leone
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Declaration of Competing Interest
Dr. Wauquier served as consultant to Metabiota. Drs Gonzalez and Fair were employed by Metabiota. The other authors have declared no conflicts of interest.
Funding
This work was supported by grant funding by the French National Agency of Research (ANR-13-BSV-0004). The funding agency had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Acknowledgement
We thank Dr D. Grant for very helpful discussion, and also B. Bayon and V. Koroma from the Kenema Government Hospital (Kenema, Sierra Leone) for their contribution
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