Ebola Virus in Breast Milk in an Ebola Virus-Positive Mother with Twin Babies, Guinea, 2015

Emerg Infect Dis. 2016 Apr;22(4):759-60. doi: 10.3201/eid2204.151880.
No abstract available

Keywords: Ebola virus; Ebola virus disease; Guinea; breast milk; lactating; outbreak; transmission; twins; virus; viruses.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Breast Feeding
  • Ebolavirus / genetics*
  • Ebolavirus / isolation & purification
  • Ebolavirus / pathogenicity
  • Female
  • Guinea
  • Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / pathology
  • Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / transmission*
  • Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / virology
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical*
  • Male
  • Milk, Human / virology*
  • Mothers
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Twins
  • Viral Proteins / genetics*

Substances

  • Viral Proteins