Browsing Research Articles (Microbiology and Plant Pathology) by Subject "Ebola virus disease (EVD)"

Browsing Research Articles (Microbiology and Plant Pathology) by Subject "Ebola virus disease (EVD)"

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  • Comparative evaluation of the diagnostic performance of the prototype Cepheid GeneXpert Ebola assay 
    Jansen van Vuren, Petrus; Grobbelaar, Antoinette A.; Storm, Nadia; Conteh, Ousman; Konneh, Kelfala; Kamara, Abdul; Sanne, Ian; Paweska, Janusz Tadeusz (American Society for Microbiology, 2016-02)
    The Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa has highlighted an urgent need for point-of-care (POC) assays for the diagnosis of this devastating disease in resource-limited African countries. The diagnostic ...
  • Experimental inoculation of Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) with Ebola virus 
    Paweska, Janusz Tadeusz; Storm, Nadia; Grobbelaar, Antoinette A.; Markotter, Wanda; Kemp, Alan; Jansen van Vuren, Petrus (MDPI Publishing, 2016-01-22)
    Colonized Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus), originating in South Africa, were inoculated subcutaneously with Ebola virus (EBOV). No overt signs of morbidity, mortality, or gross lesions were noted. Bats ...
  • South African Ebola diagnostic response in Sierra Leone : a modular high biosafety field laboratory 
    Paweska, Janusz Tadeusz; Jansen van Vuren, Petrus; McCulloch, Stewart D.; Scott, Terence Peter; Meier, Gunther H.; Le Roux, Chantel; Conteh, Ousman S.; Kemp, Alan; Fourie, Cardia; Naidoo, Prabha; Naicker, Serisha; Ohaebosim, Phumza; Storm, Nadia; Hellferscee, Orienka; Ming Sun, Lisa K.; Loubser, Shayne; Goosen, Mark; Moerdyk, Alexandra; Dlamini, Wesley; Konneh, Kelfala; Kamara, Idrissa L.; Sowa, Dauda; Sorie, Samuel; Kargbo, Brima; Madhi, Shabir A. (Public Library of Science, 2017-06-19)
    BACKGROUND : In August 2014, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in South Africa established a modular high-biosafety field Ebola diagnostic laboratory (SA FEDL) near Freetown, Sierra Leone in ...