Development of an antigen detection assay for early point-of-care diagnosis of Zaire ebolavirus.

• Main Authors: Haley L DeMers (Author), Shihua He (Author), Sujata G Pandit (Author), Emily E Hannah (Author), Zirui Zhang (Author), Feihu Yan (Author), Heather R Green (Author), Denise F Reyes (Author), Derrick Hau (Author), Megan E McLarty (Author), Louis Altamura (Author), Cheryl Taylor-Howell (Author), Marcellene A Gates-Hollingsworth (Author), Xiangguo Qiu (Author), David P AuCoin (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The 2013-2016 Ebola virus (EBOV) outbreak in West Africa and the ongoing cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have spurred development of a number of medical countermeasures, including rapid Ebola diagnostic tests. The likelihood of transmission increases as the disease progresses due to in...