Comparative evaluation of the diagnostic performance of the prototype cepheid GeneXpert ebola assay

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 359-367

  Van Vuren, Petrus Jansen ^a,b   Grobbelaar, Antoinette ^a   Storm, Nadia ^a   Conteh, Ousman ^c   Konneh, Kelfala ^c   Kamara, Abdul ^c   Sanne, Ian ^d,e   Paweska, Janusz T ^a,b,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SANITATION   (Sierra Leone)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e RIGHT TO CARE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ARBOVIRUS; ARENAVIRIDAE; ARTICLE; BUNYAVIRIDAE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; FILOVIRIDAE; FLAVIVIRIDAE; GLYCOPROTEIN GENE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DEVICE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOPROTEIN GENE; PLASMA; POINT OF CARE TESTING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERUM; SIERRA LEONE; STRUCTURAL GENE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; CELL LINE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PROCEDURES; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LOAD;

CELL LINE; EBOLAVIRUS; GENES, VIRAL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; POINT-OF-CARE TESTING; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIERRA LEONE; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 84956660817     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02724-15     Document Type: Article

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