Browsing by Subject "Ebolavirus/genetics"

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2015-11-05Zeitschriftenartikel

Development and deployment of a rapid recombinase polymerase amplification Ebola virus detection assay in Guinea in 2015

Faye, Oumar; Faye, Ousmane; Soropogui, B.; Patel, Pranav; Wahed, Ahmed Abd El; Loucoubar, C.; Fall, G.; Kiory, D.; Magassouba, N.; Keita, S.; Kondé, M. K.; Diallo, A.; Koivogui, L.; Karlberg, H.; Mirazimi, Ali; Nentwich, O.; Piepenburg, O.; Niedrig, Matthias; Weidmann, Manfred; Sall, Amadou Alpha

In the absence of a vaccine or specific treatments for Ebola virus disease (EVD), early identification of cases is crucial for the control of EVD epidemics. We evaluated a new extraction kit (SpeedXtract (SE), Qiagen) on ...
2014-12-11Zeitschriftenartikel

Management of pregnant women infected with Ebola virus in a treatment centre in Guinea, June 2014

Baggi, F. M.; Taybi, A.; Kurth, Andreas; Herp, M. van; Caro, A. di; Wölfel, Roman; Günther, Stephan; Decroo, T.; Declerck, H.; Jonckheere, S.

We report two cases of confirmed Ebola virus disease in pregnant women, who presented at the Médecins Sans Frontières Ebola treatment centre in Guéckédou. Despite the very high risk of death, both pregnant women survived. ...