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Epidemiological dynamics of Ebola outbreaks [PDF]

, 2014
Ebola is a deadly virus that causes frequent disease outbreaks in the human population. Here, we analyse its rate of new introductions, case fatality ratio, and potential to spread from person to person.
House, Thomas; id_orcid, House, Thomas A., Thomas House   +2 more
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Antiviral therapies against Ebola and other emerging viral diseases using existing medicines that block virus entry [PDF]

, 2015
Emerging viral diseases pose a threat to the global population as intervention strategies are mainly limited to basic containment due to the lack of efficacious and approved vaccines and antiviral drugs.
Temperton, Nigel J., Molesti, E, Barclay, W., Barclay, W, Wendy Barclay (686216), Eleonora Molesti, Nigel Temperton (5830610), Temperton, N, Barclay, Wendy, Edward Wright, Long, J., Molesti, E., Edward Wright (4468198), Molesti, Eleonora, Temperton, N., Long, Jason, Wright, E, Jason Long (40805), Wendy Barclay, Eleonora Molesti (686215), Wright, Edward, Wright, E., Nigel Temperton, Long, J, Jason Long   +24 more
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Pre-Ebola virus disease laboratory system and related challenges in Liberia

African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2016
Prior to the Ebola virus disease outbreak in Liberia, the laboratory system was duplicativefragmented and minimally coordinated. The National Reference Laboratory was conceptualisedto address the existing challenges by promoting the implementation of ...
Stephen B. Kennedy, John B. Dogba, Christine L. Wasunna, Philip Sahr, Candace B. Eastman, Fatorma K. Bolay, Gloria T. Mason, Mark W.S. Kieh   +7 more
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Ebola virus disease surveillance and response preparedness in northern Ghana [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND: The recent Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak has been described as unprecedented in terms of morbidity, mortality, and geographical extension. It also revealed many weaknesses and inadequacies for disease surveillance and response systems in
Martin N. Adokiya, John K. Awoonor-Williams, Adokiya, Martin N., Awoonor-Williams, John K.   +3 more
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Identification of Diaryl-Quinoline Compounds as Entry Inhibitors of Ebola Virus

Viruses, 2018
Ebola virus is the causative agent of Ebola virus disease in humans. The lethality of Ebola virus infection is about 50%, supporting the urgent need to develop anti-Ebola drugs.
Qinghua Cui, Han Cheng, Rui Xiong, Gang Zhang, Ruikun Du, Manu Anantpadma, Robert A. Davey, Lijun Rong   +7 more
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Assessment of Environmental Contamination and Environmental Decontamination Practices within an Ebola Holding Unit, Freetown, Sierra Leone. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Evidence to inform decontamination practices at Ebola holding units (EHUs) and treatment centres is lacking. We conducted an audit of decontamination procedures inside Connaught Hospital EHU in Freetown, Sierra Leone, by assessing environmental swab ...
Daniel Youkee, Colin S Brown, Paul Lilburn, Nandini Shetty, Tim Brooks, Andrew Simpson, Neil Bentley, Marta Lado, Thaim B Kamara, Naomi F Walker, Oliver Johnson   +10 more
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A SOME ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF EBOLA VIRUS IN NATURAL FOCIES

Журнал 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, V. N. Lebedev, N. V. Karulina, O. V. Chukhralya, S. I. Syromyatnikova, S. V. Borisevich   +5 more
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Increased Likelihood of Detecting Ebola Virus RNA in Semen by Using Sample Pelleting

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2021
Ebola virus RNA can reside for months or years in semen of survivors of Ebola virus disease and is probably associated with increased risk for cryptic sexual transmission of the virus.
Courtney M. Bozman, Mosoka Fallah, Michael C. Sneller, Catherine Freeman, Lawrence S. Fakoli, Bode I. Shobayo, Bonnie Dighero-Kemp, Cavan S. Reilly, Jens H. Kuhn, Fatorma Bolay, Elizabeth Higgs, Lisa E. Hensley   +11 more
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Exposure to Ebola Virus and Risk for Infection with Malaria Parasites, Rural Gabon

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020
An association between malaria and risk for death among patients with Ebola virus disease has suggested within-host interactions between Plasmodium falciparum parasites and Ebola virus.
Jessica L. Abbate, Pierre Becquart, Eric Leroy, Vanessa O. Ezenwa, Benjamin Roche   +4 more
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Risk factors for Marburg hemorrhagic fever, Democratic Republic of the Congo. [PDF]

, 2003
We conducted two antibody surveys to assess risk factors for Marburg hemorrhagic fever in an area of confirmed Marburg virus transmission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Roth, Cathy, Ksiazek, T. G., Grein, Thomas, Bausch, Daniel G, Kond\ue9, Kader M., Ben Tugume, Modeste L. Libande, Pirard, Patricia, Pierre E. Rollin, Tugume, B., Colebunders, Robert, Bausch, Daniel G., Muyembe-Tamfum, Jean-Jacques, Olinda, L. L., Rodier, G. R., Matthias Borchert, Kondé, Kader M, Talarmin, A., Ksiazek, Thomas G, Borchert, M., Rollin, P. E., Daniel G. Bausch, Pirard, P., Bausch, D. G., Rollin, Pierre E, Thomas G. Ksiazek, Rodier, Guénaël R, Swanepoel, R., Ksiazek, Thomas G., Swanepoel, Robert, Kader M. Kondé, Campbell, P., Campbell, Patricia, Thomas Grein, Libande, Modeste L, Grein, T., Muyembe-Tamfum, J. J., Robert Colebunders, Robert Swanepoel, Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, Patricia Pirard, Oyewale Tomori, Patricia Campbell, Tomori, Oyewale, Cathy Roth, Loku L. Olinda, Tugume, Ben, Colebunders, R., Talarmin, Antoine, Roth, C., Libande, M. L., Bertherat, E., Libande, Modeste L., Guénaël R. Rodier, Pirad, Patricia, Olinda, Loku L., Antoine Talarmin, Kondé, K. M., Rollin, Pierre E., Eric Bertherat, Tomori, O., Borchert, Matthias, Bertherat, Eric, Olinda, Loku L, Rodier, Gu\ue9na\uebl R.   +64 more
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