Post by The Lancet Infectious Diseases

🆕Diagnostic performance of RADIONE for diagnosis of BDBV 💡There is an urgent need for decentralised, point-of-care testing in the ongoing Bundibugyo virus outbreak in DRC to quickly detect and manage cases and reduce the spread of the disease 🔥tony wawina and colleagues evaluated RADIONE, a point-of-care, closed-PCR platform, against the WHO-approved RealStar Filovirus Screen RT-PCR kit for detecting Bundibugyo virus. Testing blood samples from 148 patients with suspected Ebola virus disease in Ituri province, DRC, they found good agreement between the two tests with no significant discordance. Read in full here: https://bit.ly/4vfHjuz #Ebola #Bundibugyo #Diagnostics #Outbreak #PointOfCareTests tony wawina, Adrienne Amuri Aziza, koen vercauteren, Daniel Mukadi-Bamuleka, Christian Ngandu, Jason Kindrachuk, Pierre Akilimali, Jean-Jacques Muyembe, PLACIDE MBALA, the Ebola Research and Response Team