Volume 22, Number 2—February 2016
Research
Feasibility of Xpert Ebola Assay in Médecins Sans Frontières Ebola Program, Guinea
Table 1
Characteristic |
No. (%) |
---|---|
Patient sex | |
F | 59 (40) |
M |
89 (60) |
Patient age, y | |
2–4 | 15 (10) |
5–18 | 19 (13) |
19–45 | 84 (57) |
46–64 | 16 (11) |
>65 | 11 (7) |
Not recorded | 3 (2) |
Sample type | |
Diagnosis 1* | 147 (67) |
Diagnosis 2 (confirmation) | 52 (24) |
After transfusion | 12 (6) |
Convalescent phase | 7 (3) |
*One patient (2-year-old boy) did not have an initial diagnostic sample obtained for the study.
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