Ebola virus persistence in breast milk after no reported illness: A likely source of virus transmission from mother to child

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 513-516

  Sissoko, Daouda ^a,b   Keïta, Mory ^c   Diallo, Boubacar ^c   Aliabadi, Negar ^d   Fitter, David L ^d   Dahl, Benjamin A ^d   Bore, Joseph Akoi ^e,f   Koundouno, Fara Raymond ^e,f   Singethan, Katrin ^e,g   Meisel, Sarah ^e,h   Enkirch, Theresa ^e,i   Mazzarelli, Antonio ^e,j   Amburgey, Victoria ^k,l   Faye, Ousmane ^m   Sall, Amadou Alpha ^m   Magassouba, N'faly ⁿ   Carroll, Miles W ^e,o,p   Anglaret, Xavier ^a,q   Malvy, Denis ^a,b   Formenty, Pierre ^c   Aylward, Raymond Bruce ^c   Keïta, Sakoba ^f   Djingarey, Mamoudou Harouna ^c   Loman, Nicholas J ^r   Günther, Stephan ^e,h   Duraffour, Sophie ^e,h   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b BORDEAUX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

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

^e European Mobile Laboratory Consortium   (Germany)

^f Ministry of Health   (Guinea)

^g TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^h BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

ⁱ PAUL EHRLICH INSTITUT   (Germany)

^j NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

^k SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^l Ratoma Ebola Diagnostic Center   (Guinea)

^m INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

ⁿ Université Gamal Abdel Nasser de Conakry   (Guinea)

^o PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^p UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^q University Hospital of Treichville   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^r UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Asymptomatic carriage; Breast milk; Ebola virus; Mother to child transmission; Real time sequencing

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; RECOMBINANT VACCINE; VIRUS RNA; VIRUS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CASE REPORT; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORAL BIOPSY; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SEMINAL PLASMA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ADULT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EBOLAVIRUS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERM; TRANSMISSION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EBOLAVIRUS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; MILK, HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEMEN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85015834059     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciw793     Document Type: Article

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