Ebola Virus Diagnostics: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Laboratory in Sierra Leone, August 2014 to March 2015

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 212, Issue , 2015, Pages S350-S358

  Flint, Mike ^a   Goodman, Christin H ⁿ   Bearden, Scott ^m   Blau, Dianna M ^b   Amman, Brian R ^a   Basile, Alison J ⁿ   Belser, Jessica A ^c   Bergeron, Éric ^a   Bowen, Michael D ^d   Brault, Aaron C ⁿ   Campbell, Shelley ^a   Chakrabarti, Ayan K ^a   Dodd, Kimberly A ^o   Erickson, Bobbie R ^a   Freeman, Molly M ^e   Gibbons, Aridth ^a   Guerrero, Lisa W ^a   Klena, John D ^p   Lash, R Ryan ^f   Lo, Michael K ^a   McMullan, Laura K ^a   Momoh, Gbetuwa ^q   Massally, James L ^q   Goba, Augustine ^q   Paddock, Christopher D ^g   Priestley, Rachael A ^g   Pyle, Meredith ^h   Rayfield, Mark ⁱ   Russell, Brandy J ⁿ   Salzer, Johanna S ^j   Sanchez, Angela J ^m   Schuh, Amy J ^a   Sealy, Tara K ^a   Steinau, Martin ^k   Stoddard, Robyn A ^l   Taboy, C ^a   Turnsek, Maryann ^e   Wang, David ^c   Zemtsova, Galina E ^g   Zivcec, Marko ^a   Spiropoulou, Christina F ^a   Ströher, Ute ^a   Towner, Jonathan S ^a   Nichol, Stuart T ^a   Bird, Brian H ^a   more..

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Infectious Diseases Pathology   (United States)

^c Influenza Div   (United States)

^d Gastroenteritis and Respiratory Virus Laboratory   (United States)

^e Enteric Diseases Laboratory   (United States)

^f Travelers' Health   (United States)

^g Rickettsial Zoonoses   (United States)

^h Laboratory Research   (United States)

ⁱ Global Disease Detection   (United States)

^j Poxvirus and Rabies   (United States)

^k Chronic Viral Diseases   (United States)

^l Bacterial Special Pathogens Branch   (United States)

^m CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

ⁿ Arboviral Diseases   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^p CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^q Ministry of Health and Sanitation   (Sierra Leone)

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Author keywords

diagnostics; Ebola; field laboratory

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOSAFETY; CLINICAL LABORATORY; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; FIELD HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SIERRA LEONE; WORKFLOW; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY;

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; SIERRA LEONE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84943244631     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiv361     Document Type: Article

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