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Diallo B, Sissoko D, Loman NJ, Bah HA, Bah H, Worrell MC, Conde LS, Sacko R, Mesfin S, Loua A, Kalonda JK, Erondu NA, Dahl BA, Handrick S, Goodfellow I, Meredith LW, Cotten M, Jah U, Guetiya Wadoum RE, Rollin P, Magassouba N, Malvy D, Anglaret X, Carroll MW, Aylward RB, Djingarey MH, Diarra A, Formenty P, Keïta S, Günther S, Rambaut A, Duraffour S. Resurgence of Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea Linked to a Survivor With Virus Persistence in Seminal Fluid for More Than 500 Days. Clin Infect Dis 2016; 63:1353-1356. [PMID: 27585800 PMCID: PMC5091350 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciw601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 151] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2016] [Accepted: 08/17/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
Abstract
We report on an Ebola virus disease (EVD) survivor who showed Ebola virus in seminal fluid 531 days after onset of disease. The persisting virus was sexually transmitted in February 2016, about 470 days after onset of symptoms, and caused a new cluster of EVD in Guinea and Liberia.
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Affiliation(s)
| | - Daouda Sissoko
- INSERM U1219, Bordeaux University.,Bordeaux University Hospital, France
| | - Nicholas J Loman
- Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - Hadja Aïssatou Bah
- Laboratoire des Fièvres Hémorragiques en Guinée, Hôpital Donka et N'Zérékoré
| | - Hawa Bah
- World Health Organization, Conakry, Guinea
| | - Mary Claire Worrell
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Guinea Response Team, Conakry.,Center for Global Health, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Guinea Response Team, Conakry
| | - Benjamin A Dahl
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Guinea Response Team, Conakry.,Center for Global Health, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia
| | - Susann Handrick
- European Mobile Laboratory Consortium.,Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
| | - Ian Goodfellow
- Division of Virology, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, United Kingdom.,Department of Public Health, University of Makeni, Sierra Leone
| | - Luke W Meredith
- Division of Virology, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, United Kingdom.,Department of Public Health, University of Makeni, Sierra Leone
| | - Matthew Cotten
- Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
| | - Umaru Jah
- Department of Public Health, University of Makeni, Sierra Leone
| | - Raoul Emeric Guetiya Wadoum
- Department of Public Health, University of Makeni, Sierra Leone.,Department of Biology, University of Rome II "Tor Vergata," Italy
| | - Pierre Rollin
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Guinea Response Team, Conakry.,National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia
| | - N'Faly Magassouba
- Université Gamal Abdel Nasser de Conakry, Laboratoire des Fièvres Hémorragiques en Guinée, Guinea
| | - Denis Malvy
- INSERM U1219, Bordeaux University.,Bordeaux University Hospital, France
| | - Xavier Anglaret
- INSERM U1219, Bordeaux University.,Programme ANRS Coopération Côte d'Ivoire, Agence Nationale de Recherche sur le Sida Research Site, Treichville University Hospital, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
| | - Miles W Carroll
- European Mobile Laboratory Consortium.,Public Health England, Porton Down, Salisbury.,University of Southampton, South General Hospital, United Kingdom
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- European Mobile Laboratory Consortium.,Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
| | - Andrew Rambaut
- Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Centre for Infection, Immunity and Evolution, Ashworth Laboratories, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
| | - Sophie Duraffour
- European Mobile Laboratory Consortium.,Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
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