The field of point-of-care (POC) diagnostics offers the tantalizing possibility of providing
rapid diagnostic results in nonlaboratory settings. Here, we review progress in this research …

Laboratory diagnosis of Ebola virus disease plays a critical role in outbreak response efforts;
however, establishing safe and expeditious testing strategies for this high-biosafety-level …

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a devastating disease, yet despite its enormous toll on global
health, tools to control TB are insufficient and often outdated. TB Biomarkers (TB‐BM) would …

We investigated the duration of Ebola virus (EBOV) RNA and infectious EBOV in semen
specimens of 5 Ebola virus disease (EVD) survivors. EBOV RNA and infectious EBOV was …

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 …

Nipah virus (NiV) is an emerging pathogen that, unlike other priority pathogens identified by
WHO, is endemic to Southeast Asia. It is most commonly transmitted through exposure to …

Background The emergence of different viral infections during the last decades like dengue,
West Nile, SARS, chikungunya, MERS-CoV, Ebola, Zika and Yellow Fever raised some …

Background Throughout the Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic in West Africa, field
laboratory testing for EVD has relied on complex, multi-step real-time reverse transcription …

There are 4 families of viruses that cause viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF), including
Filoviridae. Ebola virus is one virus within the family Filoviridae and the cause of the current …

The Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa has highlighted an urgent need for
point-of-care (POC) assays for the diagnosis of this devastating disease in resource-limited …