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Volume 22, Number 2—February 2016
Research

Feasibility of Xpert Ebola Assay in Médecins Sans Frontières Ebola Program, Guinea

Rafael Van den BerghComments to Author , Pascale Chaillet, Mamadou Saliou Sow, Mathieu Amand, Charlotte van Vyve, Sylvie Jonckheere, Rosa Crestani, Armand Sprecher, Michel Van Herp, Arlene Chua, Erwan Piriou, Lamine Koivogui, and Annick Antierens
Author affiliations: Médecins Sans Frontières, Brussels, Brussels, Belgium (R. Van den Bergh, P. Chaillet, R. Crestani, A. Sprecher, M. Van Herp, A. Antierens); Hôpital National Donka, Conakry, Guinea (M.S. Sow); Comité de Recherche Ebola de Guinée, Conakry (M.S. Sow); Médecins Sans Frontières, Conakry (M. Amand, C. van Vyve, S. Jonckheere); Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland (A. Chua); Institute of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Singapore (A. Chua); Médecins Sans Frontières, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (E. Piriou); Institut National de Santé Publique, Conakry (L. Koivogui)

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Table 1

Characteristics of 148 patients and 218 blood samples collected for analysis by Xpert Ebola Assay at Médecins Sans Frontières Donka Ebola Treatment Center, Conakry, Guinea, May–June 2015

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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