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SUBMITTER: Ellerbrok H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5426792 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ellerbrok Heinz H Jacobsen Sonja S Patel Pranav P Rieger Toni T Eickmann Markus M Becker Stephan S Günther Stephan S Naidoo Dhamari D Schrick Livia L Keeren Kathrin K Targosz Angelina A Teichmann Anette A Formenty Pierre P Niedrig Matthias M
PLoS neglected tropical diseases 20170501 5
During the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa several international mobile laboratories were deployed to the mainly affected countries Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia to provide ebolavirus diagnostic capacity. Additionally, imported cases and small outbreaks in other countries required global preparedness for Ebola diagnostics. Detection of viral RNA by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction has proven effective for diagnosis of ebolavirus disease and several assays are available. Ho ...[more]