A sensitive and specific point-of-care detection assay for Zaire Ebola virus

Emerg Microbes Infect. 2017 Jan 18;6(1):e5. doi: 10.1038/emi.2016.134.

Authors

Xiao-Ai Zhang¹, Sabrina Li², Jesus Ching^{2

3}, Hui-Ying Feng², Kun Yang², David L Dolinger⁴, Long-Di Zhang², Pan-He Zhang¹, Wei Liu¹, Wu-Chun Cao¹

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing 10071, China.
² Coyote Bioscience Company, Beijing 100085, China.
³ Coyote Bioscience Company, Campbell, WA 95008, USA.
⁴ Technology and Business Development Officer, Geneva 1211, Switzerland.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ebolavirus / genetics
Ebolavirus / isolation & purification*
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / blood
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / diagnosis*
Humans
Oropharynx / virology
Point-of-Care Systems*
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction* / instrumentation
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction* / methods
Sensitivity and Specificity