Genetic Testing Underway on Virus Behind New Ebola Outbreak

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Last Posted: May 27, 2017

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• Genetic Testing Underway on Virus Behind New Ebola Outbreak  
  VOA Africa, May 2017
• Rapid deployment of a mobile biosafety level-3 laboratory in Sierra Leone during the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic.  
  Zhang Yi et al. PLoS neglected tropical diseases 2017 May (5) e0005622
• External quality assessment study for ebolavirus PCR-diagnostic promotes international preparedness during the 2014 - 2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.  
  Ellerbrok Heinz et al. PLoS neglected tropical diseases 2017 May (5) e0005570
• Strategies in Ebola virus disease (EVD) diagnostics at the point of care.  
  Coarsey Chad T et al. Critical reviews in microbiology 2017 Apr 1-20
• Virus genomes reveal factors that spread and sustained the Ebola epidemic.  
  Dudas Gytis et al. Nature 2017 Apr
• Rapid detection and quantification of Ebola Zaire virus by one-step real-time quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction.  
  Ro Young-Tae et al. Microbiology and immunology 2017 Apr (3-4) 130-137
• NIH study of Ebola patient traces disease progression and recovery  
  NIH News Release, April 12, 2017
• Longitudinal peripheral blood transcriptional analysis of a patient with severe Ebola virus disease  
  Kash JC, et al. Sci Transl Med, Apr 12, 2017.
• Virus genomes reveal factors that spread and sustained the Ebola epidemic  
  Dudas G, et al. Nature, Apr 12, 2017.
• Asymptomatic infection and unrecognised Ebola virus disease in Ebola-affected households in Sierra Leone: a cross-sectional study using a new non-invasive assay for antibodies to Ebola virus.  
  Glynn Judith R et al. The Lancet. Infectious diseases 2017 Feb
• Evaluating novel diagnostics in an outbreak setting: lessons learned from Ebola.  
  Pollock Nira R et al. Journal of clinical microbiology 2017 Mar
• West African Ebola Virus Strains: Unstable and Ready to Invade?  
  Basler Christopher F et al. Cell host & microbe 2017 Mar (3) 316-318
• Ebola Virus RNA in Semen from an HIV-Positive Survivor of Ebola.  
  Purpura Lawrence J et al. Emerging infectious diseases 2017 Apr (4)
• Ebola Virus RNA in Semen from an HIV-Positive Survivor of Ebola 
  LJ Purpura et al, EID, Apri 2017
• A polymorphism within the internal fusion loop of the Ebola virus glycoprotein modulates host cell entry.  
  Hoffmann Markus et al. Journal of virology 2017 Feb
• Spatial and temporal dynamics of superspreading events in the 2014-2015 West Africa Ebola epidemic.  
  Lau Max S Y et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2017 Feb

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