ReEBOV Antigen Rapid Test kit for point-of-care and laboratory-based testing for Ebola virus disease: a field validation study

The Lancet

Volumn 386, Issue 9996, 2015, Pages 867-874

  Broadhurst, Mara Jana ^a   Kelly, John Daniel ^a,b   Miller, Ann ^a,c   Semper, Amanda ^d,e   Bailey, Daniel ^d   Groppelli, Elisabetta ^f,g   Simpson, Andrew ^d,f   Brooks, Tim ^d,e   Hula, Susan ^d,f   Nyoni, Wilfred ^d,f   Sankoh, Alhaji B ^h   Kanu, Santigi ^h   Jalloh, Alhaji ^h   Ton, Quy ^a,i   Sarchet, Nicholas ^a   George, Peter ^h   Perkins, Mark D ^j   Wonderly, Betsy ^j   Murray, Megan ^a,c   Pollock, Nira R ^a,k  

^a PARTNERS IN HEALTH   (United States)

^b Wellbody Alliance   (Sierra Leone)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^e NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections   (United Kingdom)

^f Public Health England Laboratory   (Sierra Leone)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SANITATION   (Sierra Leone)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^j FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATIVE NEW DIAGNOSTICS   (Switzerland)

^k BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN VP40; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPID TEST; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REEBOV ANTIGEN RAPID TEST KIT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIERRA LEONE; VEIN PUNCTURE; VENOUS BLOOD; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; GENETICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EBOLAVIRUS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84940953358     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)61042-X     Document Type: Article

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