Sentences with phrase «convalescent serum»

Drugs used in a handful of previous cases of Ebola virus disease, convalescent serum, ZMapp etc., are antibody - based so not suitable to treat infections of the brain.

The clinical presentation, time of illness concurrent with the onset of the outbreak, and presence of neutralizing Abs in convalescent serum all strongly point to primary infection of the researcher by TMAdV.

But like the other treatments under discussion, it is far from proven that convalescent serum will help Ebola patients.

There are not yet official plans to administer convalescent serum to ill people, but WHO said it will assess if the treatment approach was «safe and feasible» and was already working with officials in Ebola - affected areas to strengthen the blood - banking systems there.

As for using convalescent serum to treat patients, it is an attractive option for a number of reasons, Bausch says.

Convalescent serum was tried again in 1995 in an Ebola outbreak in Kikwit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

«We agreed that whole - blood therapies and convalescent serum may be used to treat Ebola virus disease and that all efforts must be invested into helping affected countries use them safely,» Marie - Paule Kieny, assistant director general for health systems and innovation at WHO told reporters.

We used the ELISA method for BYDV - specific antibody detection in the convalescent sera.

Not exact matches

The WHO filovirus clinical working group, convened in response to the current outbreak, discussed the evidence on convalescents» serum at a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, at the end of July, says Bausch, who is part of the group.

She clung to Pierre Sureau from Institut Pasteur, who soothed her, telling her about the serum that Margaretha Isaacson from South Africa would administer, which contained antibodies against Marburg virus, from a convalescent patient in South Africa, that might strengthen her immune system to fight the virus.

Acute - and convalescent - phase serum samples obtained 10 — 30 days after the acute sample were tested for B. burgdorferi antibodies for 103 patients (table 1).