Browsing by Author "Abd El Wahed, Ahmed"

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2018-06-15Zeitschriftenartikel

Development of Mobile Laboratory for Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Detection in Africa

Weidmann, Manfred; Faye, Ousmane; Faye, Oumar; Abd El Wahed, Ahmed; Patel, Pranav; Batejat, Christophe; Manugerra, Jean Claude; Adjami, Aimee; Niedrig, Matthias; Hufert, Frank T.; Sall, Amadou A.

Background A mobile laboratory transportable on commercial flights was developed to enable local response to viral hemorrhagic fever outbreaks. Methods The development progressed from use of mobile real-time ...
2019-03-06Zeitschriftenartikel

Diagnosing Zika virus infection against a background of other flaviviruses: Studies in high resolution serological analysis

Hansen, Sören; Hotop, Sven-Kevin; Faye, Oumar; Ndiaye, Oumar; Böhlken-Fascher, Susanne; Pessôa, Rodrigo; Hufert, Frank; Stahl-Hennig, Christiane; Frank, Roland; Czerny, Claus-Peter; Schmidt-Chanasit, Jonas; Sanabani, Sabri S.; Sall, Amadou A.; Niedrig, Matthias; Brönstrup, Mark; Fritz, Hans-Joachim; Abd El Wahed, Ahmed

Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus. Homologous proteins of different flaviviruses display high degrees of sequence identity, especially within subgroups. This leads to extensive immunological cross-reactivity ...
2018-12-29Zeitschriftenartikel

Find the right sample: A study on the versatility of saliva and urine samples for the diagnosis of emerging viruses

Niedrig, Matthias; Patel, Pranav; Abd El Wahed, Ahmed; Schädler, Regina; Yactayo, Sergio

Background The emergence of different viral infections during the last decades like dengue, West Nile, SARS, chikungunya, MERS-CoV, Ebola, Zika and Yellow Fever raised some questions on quickness and reliability of ...