Ebola Virus Infection Associated with Transmission from Survivors.

Authors: Den Boon S, Marston BJ, Nyenswah TG, Jambai A, Barry M, Keita S, Durski K, Senesie SS, Perkins D, Shah A, Green HH, Hamblion EL, Lamunu M, Gasasira A, Mahmoud NO, Djingarey MH, Morgan O, Crozier I, Dye C Abstract Ebola virus (EBOV) can persist in immunologically protected body sites in survivors of Ebola virus disease, creating the potential to initiate new chains of transmission. From the outbreak in West Africa during 2014-2016, we identified 13 possible events of viral persistence-derived transmission of EBOV (VPDTe) and applied predefined criteria to classify transmission events based on the strength of evidence for VPDTe and source and route of transmission. For 8 events, a recipient case was identified; possible source cases were identified for 5 of these 8. For 5 ev...

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