Deploying RDTs in the DRC Ebola outbreak

• Published in: The Lancet (British edition) Vol. 391; no. 10139; pp. 2499 - 2500
• Main Authors: Dhillon, Ranu S, Srikrishna, Devabhaktuni, Kelly, J Daniel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 23.06.2018; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Community involvement; Democratic Republic of the Congo - epidemiology; Disease Outbreaks; Early Diagnosis; Ebola virus; Ebolavirus; Epidemics; Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola - diagnosis; Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola - epidemiology; Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola - prevention & control; Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola - transmission; Humans; Immunoassays; Malaria; Medical personnel; Outbreaks; Point-of-Care Systems; Public health; Reagent Kits, Diagnostic; Technicians; Vector-borne diseases; Viral diseases; Congo River

During the early stages of the 2013–16 west African Ebola epidemic, we thought we had a grip on transmission only to discover that unknown transmission chains were spreading unchecked, ultimately enabling the epidemic to spiral out of control. The GeneXpert, an automated PCR device with >99% sens...