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Deployable CRISPR-Cas13a diagnostic tools to detect and report Ebola and Lassa virus cases in real-time

open access: yesNature Communications, 2020
Outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fevers highlight the need for sensitive, field-deployable diagnostics. Here the authors present a CRISPR-based SHERLOCK platform with field protocol and mobile app for Ebola and Lassa fever outbreaks.
Kayla G. Barnes   +38 more
doaj   +1 more source

Projections of Ebola outbreak size and duration with and without vaccine use in Équateur, Democratic Republic of Congo, as of May 27, 2018. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
As of May 27, 2018, 6 suspected, 13 probable and 35 confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) had been reported in Équateur Province, Democratic Republic of Congo. We used reported case counts and time series from prior outbreaks to estimate the total
Ackley, Sarah   +17 more
core   +2 more sources

Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Nonspecific Medical Protection Against Diseased, Caused of Ebola Virus

open access: yesАнтибиотики и Химиотерапия, 2020
The article presents an analysis of research evaluating the effectiveness of nonspecific means of emergency prevention and treatment of Ebola virus disease.
T. E. Sizikova   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk factors for transmission of Ebola or Marburg virus disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background The Ebola virus disease outbreak that started in Western Africa in 2013 was unprecedented because it spread within densely populated urban environments and affected many thousands of people.
Baron   +26 more
core   +1 more source

Global distribution and contexts of interactions between humans and non‐human primates: A systematic review

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Understanding the frequency and socio‐ecological drivers of contacts between humans and non‐human primates (NHPs) is crucial for enhancing coexistence that favours NHP conservation, while limiting negative consequences such as aggressions and cross‐species disease transmission.
Cristina Caparrós‐Vallcorba   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Undiagnosed Acute Viral Febrile Illnesses, Sierra Leone

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2014
Sierra Leone in West Africa is in a Lassa fever–hyperendemic region that also includes Guinea and Liberia. Each year, suspected Lassa fever cases result in submission of ≈500–700 samples to the Kenema Government Hospital Lassa Diagnostic Laboratory in ...
Randal J. Schoepp   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Marburg hemorrhagic fever in Durba and Watsa, Democratic Republic of the Congo: clinical documentation, features of illness, and treatment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The objective of the present study was to describe day of onset and duration of symptoms of Marburg hemorrhagic fever (MHF), to summarize the treatments applied, and to assess the quality of clinical documentation. Surveillance and clinical records of 77
Antoine Tshomba   +20 more
core   +2 more sources

A SOME ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF EBOLA VIRUS IN NATURAL FOCIES

open access: yesЖурнал микробиологии, эпидемиологии и иммунобиологии, 2018
Ebola virus that composed Ebolavirus genus of Filoviridae Family causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans with high case-fatality rates (up to 90%).
T. E. Sizikova   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Irregular and Infectious? COVID‐19, Ebola and the Securitization of Migration to Southern Europe

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 312-340, January 2026.
Abstract Securitization scholarship concentrates on the discursive association between undocumented migration, terrorism and crime. Our textual and visual analysis of Italian, Spanish and Maltese newspapers between 2013 and 2020 demonstrates that the discourses securitizing irregular mobility as a health risk became more salient than those linking ...
Eugenio Cusumano   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Molecular detection of dengue virus in patients suspected of Ebola virus disease in Ghana.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
Dengue fever is known to be one of the most common arthropod-borne viral infectious diseases of public health importance. The disease is now endemic in more than 100 countries in Africa, the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia and the ...
Joseph Humphrey Kofi Bonney   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

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