| Literature DB >> 27118786 |
Karen K Wong1, Richard T Davey2, Angela L Hewlett3, Colleen S Kraft4, Aneesh K Mehta4, Mark J Mulligan4, Allison Beck4, William Dorman5, Christopher J Kratochvil3, Lilin Lai4, Tara N Palmore2, Susan Rogers4, Philip W Smith3, Anthony F Suffredini6, Mark Wolcott5, Ute Ströher1, Timothy M Uyeki1.
Abstract
From September 2014 to April 2015, 6 persons who had occupational exposures to Zaire ebolavirus in West Africa received investigational agent rVSV-ZEBOV or TKM-100802 for postexposure prophylaxis and were monitored in the United States. All patients experienced self-limited symptoms after postexposure prophylaxis; none developed Ebola virus disease. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2016. This work is written by (a) US Government employee(s) and is in the public domain in the US.Entities:
Keywords: Ebola virus; TKM-Ebola; postexposure prophylaxis; vesicular stomatitis virus
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27118786 PMCID: PMC4946014 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciw256
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Infect Dis ISSN: 1058-4838 Impact factor: 9.079