Footnotes

• Collaborators Members of the INMI's Ebola Team (to be listed in PubMed as collaborators). IDs specialists: Nicola Petrosillo, Emanuele Nicastri, Nazario Bevilacqua, Evangelo Boumis, Pierangelo Chinello, Stefania Cicalini, Angela Corpolongo, Vincenzo Galati, Andrea Mariano, Silvia Rosati, Fabrizio Taglietti, Laura Vincenzi; Intensive care Physicians: Mario Antonini, Ilaria Caravella, Gabriele Garotto, Luisa Marchioni, Micaela Maritti; Psychologists: Pietro Balestra and Martina Ricottini, Radiologist: Elisa Busi Rizzi; Virology and Microbiology Laboratorians: Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Antonino di Caro, Concetta Castilletti, Licia Bordi, Eleonora Lalle, Silvia Meschi, Daniele Lapa, Patrizia Marsella, Francesca Colavita, Roberta Chiappini, Antonio Mazzarelli, Serena Quartu, Chiara Agrati, Fabrizio Carletti, Federica Forbici, Maria Beatrice Valli, Isabella Abbate, Alessandra Amendola, Anna Rosa Garbuglia, Maria Grazia Paglia, Eugenio Bordi, Damiano Travaglini, Antonietta Toffoletti; Nurses: Gianni Battisti, Alessanda Coppola, Loredana De Marchis, Nicola De Marco, Paolo Giacomini, Fabio Di Gianbattista, Mario Guiducci, Antonio Marasco, Antonella Marzolini, Alessandro Mercuri, Paola Nieddu, Silvia Ondedei, Maurizio Vescovo, Laura Vitolo; Radiology Technician: Maurizio Morea; Drivers’ biocontainment ambulance: Gaetano Battisti, Marco Liguori; Members of the INMI Crisis unit: Nicola Petrosillo, Emanuele Nicastri, Francesco Nicola Lauria, Vincenzo Puro, Mario Antonini, Antonio Russo, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Antonino Di Caro, Paolo D'Aprile, Antonella Petrecchia, Evangelo Boumis, Marco Gentile, Damiano Travaglini, Silvia Pittalis, Lorena Martini, Concetta Castilletti, Francesco Maria Fusco, Simone Lanini, Andrea Antinori, Marina Cerimele, Giuseppe Ippolito and Marta Branca.

• Contributors EN has been involved in the study concept, manuscript writing and clinical assistance. PB has been involved in the study design and in the neuropsychological test administration. MR has been involved in the neuropsychological tests analysis and interpretation. NP has been involved in the clinical assistance and in the manuscript revision. ADC has been involved in the study concept and in the virological test performance. MRC has been involved in the virological test performance, data analysis and interpretation. MLG has been involved in the manuscript drafting and revision. And GI has been involved in the critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content and in the study supervision.

• Funding This work has been supported by grants from the Italian Ministry of Health (Ricerca Corrente and Ricerca Finalizzata).

• Competing interests None declared.

• Patient consent Obtained.

• Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.