case fatality rate

The case fatality rate for these reported cases continues to be approximately 50 percent.

The case fatality rate for those with a severe form of infection may approach 25%.

What are the case fatality rates for the various forms of anthrax?

The outbreak had a high case fatality rate with 4 of 5 identified cases resulting in death.

"I can calculate a case fatality rate, but that is meaningless to people," she said.

Stroke affects an elderly population and carries a modest case fatality rate.

The case fatality rate is less than 1% for hospitalized infants with botulism.

The overall case fatality rate is less than 1% and people with complications, including meningitis, almost always recover completely.

Observations suggest that these strains cause more severe cholera with higher case fatality rates.

Untreated caprine brucellosis results in a 2% case fatality rate.

The availability of midwives had the highest protective effect, reducing the case fatality rate by 80%.

Severity of the disease increases for untreated patients, with a case fatality rate of approximately 80%.

The case fatality rate for the outbreak was higher than expected for such outbreaks, although it began declining by January 2009.

Patients with cutaneous anthrax have reported case fatality rates of 20% without antibiotic treatment and less than 1% with it.

Some estimates indicate case fatality rates of 80-90% in Native American populations during smallpox epidemics.

V. vulnificus infection has the highest case fatality rate (50%) of any foodborne pathogen.

However, there is no anti-venom or other effective therapy for Atractaspis envenomation, and the case fatality rate remains approximately 10%, with death typically occurring quickly.

This disease mortality statistic is more precisely referred to as "case fatality rate" (CFR).

If one wants to be very precise, the term "case fatality rate" is incorrect, because the time from disease onset to death is not taken into account.

Nevertheless, the term case fatality rate (and the abbreviation "CFR") is often used in the scientific literature.

The strain of Ebola that broke out in Zaire has one of the highest case fatality rates of any human pathogenic virus, roughly 90%.

USAID provided nearly $42 million to help combat cholera, helping to decrease the number of cases requiring hospitalization and reduce the case fatality rate.

The proportions were then adjusted to reflect the difference between Canadian and US case fatality rates for diabetic patients with AMI.

This relatively benign Korean strain of H5N1 has died out, and the remaining strains of H5N1 have a higher case fatality rate in humans.

The majority of Cronobacter cases are in adults, and additionally it is associated with a rare cause of invasive infection of infants with historically high case fatality rates (40-80%).