{"id":4175,"date":"2015-06-26T10:43:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T14:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/?p=4175"},"modified":"2015-06-26T10:55:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T14:55:52","slug":"bedside-ebola-test-accurate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/2015\/06\/bedside-ebola-test-accurate\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedside Ebola Test Accurate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tools-txt\"><strong>Original article from:<\/strong><em> MedPage Today <\/em>posted on June 25, 2015. by Michael Smith<\/p>\n<div class=\"text section\">\n<p>A bedside blood test for Ebola detected all of the cases that were positive on a standard assay and most of those that were negative, researchers reported.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, the Corgenix ReEBOV Antigen Rapid Test was faster than a widely used commercial assay that employs polymerase chain reactions (PCR), according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrenshospital.org\/researchers\/nira-pollock\" target=\"_blank\">Nira Pollock, MD, PhD<\/a>, of Boston Children&#8217;s Hospital, and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>But the analysis uncovered weaknesses in a standard PCR test, made by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altona-diagnostics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">altona Diagnostics<\/a> of Hamburg, Germany, that make it unclear how well the rapid test functions early in the disease course, when patients are less infectious, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736%2815%2961042-X\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\">Pollock and colleagues reported online in <em>The Lancet<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latter finding &#8220;suggests that practical use of the rapid diagnostic test will need careful confirmation,&#8221; commented <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/id\/faculty\/bhadelia-nahid-m-d-m-a\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nahid Bhadelia, MD, <\/a>of Boston University School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>In an accompanying editorial, Bhadelia said just completing the study &#8212; in the face of the &#8220;logistical, staff safety, and administrative obstacles&#8221; of the Ebola outbreak &#8212; is a feat in itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/InfectiousDisease\/Ebola\/52323?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=prbuexperts\">Read Full Article on MedPage Today<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original article from: MedPage Today posted on June 25, 2015&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3075,1298],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4176,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175\/revisions\/4176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}