Advancements in analytical diagnostic systems for point-of-care (POC) application have
gained considerable attention because of their rapid operation at the site required to …

Ebola is a highly pathogenic virus, which in humans reaches a mortality rate above 50%.
Due to a lack of laboratories in territories where Ebola viruses are endemic and the limited …

Early reports in 1976 and 1995 documented cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo
(DRC) of what we now know to be Ebola virus disease (EVD) caused by Zaire ebolavirus …

Summary Background The Democratic Republic of the Congo has confronted 13 outbreaks
of Ebola virus disease since 1976. Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) detecting viral antigens …

Ebola virus (EBOV) hemorrhagic fever outbreaks have been challenging to deter due to the
lack of health care infrastructure in disease-endemic countries and a corresponding inability …

Purpose To explore contemporary clincial case management of patients with Ebola virus
disease. Methods A narrative review from a clinical perspective of clinical features …

Background Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks have emerged in Central and West Africa.
EVD diagnosis relies principally on RT-PCR testing with GeneXpert®, which has logistical …

Filoviruses are negative-sense single-stranded RNA viruses often associated with severe
and highly lethal hemorrhagic fever in humans and nonhuman primates, with case fatality …

Objective To evaluate the clinical accuracy of rapid diagnostic tests for the detection of Ebola
virus. Methods We searched MEDLINE®, Embase® and Web of Science for articles …

Background No distinctive clinical signs of Ebola virus disease (EVD) have prompted the
development of rapid screening tools or called for a new approach to screening suspected …