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Volume 25, Number 2—February 2019
Synopsis

Ebola Virus Infection Associated with Transmission from Survivors

Saskia Den Boon1Comments to Author , Barbara J. Marston1, Tolbert G. Nyenswah, Amara Jambai, Moumie Barry, Sakoba Keita, Kara Durski, Schabbethai S. Senesie, Devin Perkins, Anita Shah, Hugh H. Green, Esther L. Hamblion, Margaret Lamunu, Alex Gasasira, Nuha O. Mahmoud, Mamadou H. Djingarey, Oliver Morgan, Ian Crozier, and Christopher Dye
Author affiliations: World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (S. Den Boon, K. Durski, D. Perkins, A. Shah, O. Morgan, I. Crozier, C. Dye); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (B.J. Marston, S.S. Senesie, H.H. Green, O. Morgan); National Public Health Institute, Monrovia, Liberia (T.G. Nyenswah); Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone (A. Jambai); Ministry of Health, Conakry, Guinea (M. Barry, S. Keita); World Health Organization, Monrovia, Liberia (E.L. Hamblion, A. Gasasira, N.O. Mahmoud); World Health Organization, Freetown, Sierra Leone (M. Lamunu); World Health Organization, Conakry (M.H. Djingarey); University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (C. Dye)

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Table 1

Criteria for the qualification of Ebola virus persistence–derived transmission event*

Criteria no. Explanation
1 Sequencing provides links to a case or cases that occurred >21 days before the index person and not to a more recent case
OR
2 Absence of known exposure of the presumed recipient (or index person) to a person with Ebola virus disease in the 21 days before infection
AND
No evidence of ongoing transmission in the community where case or cluster was recognized
AND
Epidemiologic link to survivor established

*Criteria apply to recipient or >1 person in the cluster (if the index person is not the recipient).

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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