Figure 1.
Persistence of infectious Ebola virus and viral RNA on PPE and ETU materials. Ebola virus was recovered from materials incubated in average West African climate conditions (27 °C and 80% RH) using a variation of the QCT-2 protocol published as ASTM E2197 – 11. The Environmental Persistence experiments were performed in three biological replicates, each consisting of three technical repetitions. Reported values are the average across all replicates (n = 9) error was calculated as standard error of the mean. Where: GE- genome equivalents and TCID50- tissue culture infectious dose fifty.