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Bobbie R Erickson1, Tara K Sealy1, Tim Flietstra1, Laura Morgan1, Brima Kargbo2, Victor E Matt-Lebby2, Aridth Gibbons1, Ayan K Chakrabarti1, James Graziano3, Lance Presser1, Mike Flint1, Brian H Bird1, Shelley Brown1, John D Klena4, Dianna M Blau5, Aaron C Brault6, Jessica A Belser7, Johanna S Salzer8, Amy J Schuh1, Michael Lo1, Marko Zivcec1, Rachael A Priestley9, Meredith Pyle10, Christin Goodman6, Scott Bearden11, Brian R Amman1, Alison Basile6, Éric Bergeron1, Michael D Bowen12, Kimberly A Dodd13, Molly M Freeman14, Laura K McMullan1, Christopher D Paddock9, Brandy J Russell6, Angela J Sanchez15, Jonathan S Towner1, David Wang7, Galina E Zemtsova9, Robyn A Stoddard3, Maryann Turnsek14, Lisa Wiggleton Guerrero1, Shannon L Emery16, Janae Stovall6, Markus H Kainulainen1, Jamie L Perniciaro9, Slavica Mijatovic-Rustempasic12, Gulchekhra Shakirova17, Jörn Winter16, Christopher Sexton11, Feng Liu7, Kimetha Slater9, Raydel Anderson18, Lauren Andersen19, Cheng-Feng Chiang1, Wen-Pin Tzeng7, Samuel J Crowe20, Matthew J Maenner21, Christina F Spiropoulou1, Stuart T Nichol1, Ute Ströher1.
Abstract
During the Ebola virus outbreak of 2013-2016, the Viral Special Pathogens Branch field laboratory in Sierra Leone tested approximately 26 000 specimens between August 2014 and October 2015. Analysis of the B2M endogenous control Ct values showed its utility in monitoring specimen quality, comparing results with different specimen types, and interpretation of results. For live patients, blood is the most sensitive specimen type and oral swabs have little diagnostic utility. However, swabs are highly sensitive for diagnostic testing of corpses. 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; West Africa; endogenous control; housekeeping gene; qRT-PCR
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27587631 PMCID: PMC5769963 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiw296
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Infect Dis ISSN: 0022-1899 Impact factor: 5.226