Russom, Mulugeta http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1939-5842
Fitsum, Yodit http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1008-1679
Abraham, Abiel http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8516-3113
Savage, Ruth L. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8932-0849
Article History
Accepted: 28 February 2021
First Online: 30 March 2021
Declarations
:
: No funding was used for this study.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: Information of all cases retrieved from the WHO global database of individual case safety reports is de-identified and ethical approval is not required.
: Informed consent to participate in the study was obtained from the Eritrean patient (case report).
: Though informed consent was obtained from the case reported from Eritrea, the patient’s details (including name, images, residence, admitting and referral hospitals) are also completely anonymized.
: The datasets generated and analyzed during the current study are not publicly available due to agreements between contributors of data to the database used (VigiBase) and the custodian of the database. National Centres (mainly drug regulatory authorities) constituting the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring (PIDM) contribute data to VigiBase and the Uppsala Monitoring Centre is the custodian in its capacity as WHO Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring. Some subsets of the data may be available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: Not applicable.
: MR and YF contributed to the conception the study. The case from Eritrea was reported, investigated and written by AA and all the authors contributed to the study design. RS, MR and YF contributed to the analysis of publications, data analysis and their interpretation. MR and RS drafted the article, and it was reviewed by the rest of the authors. Finally, all authors read and approved the final manuscript.
: The authors are indebted to the National Centres that make up the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring and contribute reports to VigiBase. However, the opinions and conclusions of this study are not necessarily those of the various centres nor of the WHO.