Ebola Virus Disease Diagnostics, Sierra Leone: Analysis of Real-time Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction Values for Clinical Blood and Oral Swab Specimens

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 214, Issue , 2016, Pages S258-S262

  Erickson, Bobbie R ^a   Sealy, Tara K ^a   Flietstra, Tim ^a   Morgan, Laura ^a   Kargbo, Brima ^s   Matt Lebby, Victor E ^s   Gibbons, Aridth ^a   Chakrabarti, Ayan K ^a   Graziano, James ^b   Presser, Lance ^a   Flint, Mike ^a   Bird, Brian H ^a   Brown, Shelley ^a   Klena, John D ^p   Blau, DIanna M ^c   Brault, Aaron C ^q   Belser, Jessica A ^d   Salzer, Johanna S ^e   Schuh, Amy J ^a   Lo, Michael ^a   Zivcec, Marko ^a   Priestley, Rachael A ^f   Pyle, Meredith ^g   Goodman, Christin ^q   Bearden, Scott ^p   Amman, Brian R ^a   Basile, Alison ^q   Bergeron, Éric ^a   Bowen, Michael D ^h   Dodd, Kimberly A ^r   Freeman, Molly M ⁱ   McMullan, Laura K ^a   Paddock, Christopher D ^f   Russell, Brandy J ^q   Sanchez, Angela J ^j   Towner, Jonathan S ^a   Wang, David ^d   Zemtsova, Galina E ^f   Stoddard, Robyn A ^b   Turnsek, Maryann ⁱ   Guerrero, Lisa Wiggleton ^a   Emery, Shannon L ^k   Stovall, Janae ^q   Kainulainen, Markus H ^a   Perniciaro, Jamie L ^f   Mijatovic Rustempasic, Slavica ^h   Shakirova, Gulchekhra ^l   Winter, Jörn ^k   Sexton, Christopher ^p   Liu, Feng ^d   Slater, Kimetha ^f   Anderson, Raydel ^m   Andersen, Lauren ⁿ   Chiang, Cheng Feng ^a   Tzeng, Wen Pin ^d   Crowe, Samuel J ^o   Maenner, Matthew J ^p   Spiropoulou, Christina F ^a   Nichol, Stuart T ^a   Ströher, Ute ^a   more..

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

^b Bacterial Special Pathogens Branch   (United States)

^c Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch   (United States)

^d Influenza Division   (United States)

^e Pox and Rabies Branch   (United States)

^f Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch   (United States)

^g NATIONAL CENTER ON BIRTH DEFECTS AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

^h Gastroenteritis and Respiratory Virus Laboratory Branch   (United States)

ⁱ Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch   (United States)

^j Office of Technology and Innovation   (United States)

^k Department of Laboratory Medicine   (United States)

^l Inorganic and Radiation Analytical Toxicology Branch   (United States)

^m Herpes Virus Laboratory Branch   (Australia)

ⁿ Laboratory Preparedness and Response Branch   (United States)

^o Enteric Diseases Epidemiology Branch   (United States)

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

^q Arboviral Diseases Branch   (Australia)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^s MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SANITATION   (Sierra Leone)

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Author keywords

Ebola virus; Endogenous control; Housekeeping gene; QRT PCR; West Africa

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; MESSENGER RNA; VIRUS RNA;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLE THRESHOLD; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; MOUTH EXAMINATION; ORAL SWAB; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUALITY CONTROL; REACTION VALUE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIERRA LEONE; STORAGE TIME; SURVIVOR; VIRUS LOAD; CLINICAL LABORATORY SERVICE; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY; PROCEDURES; VIROLOGY;

CLINICAL LABORATORY SERVICES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 84991013846     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiw296     Document Type: Article

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