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A 9-month-old infant died from Ebola virus (EBOV) disease with unknown epidemiological link. While her parents did not report previous illness, laboratory investigations revealed persisting EBOV RNA in the mother's breast milk and the father's seminal fluid. Genomic analysis strongly suggests EBOV transmission to the child through breastfeeding.

Original publication

DOI

10.1093/cid/ciw793

Type

Journal article

Journal

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Publication Date

02/2017

Volume

64

Pages

513 - 516

Addresses

INSERM U1219, Bordeaux University, Bordeaux, France.

Keywords

Milk, Human, Semen, Humans, Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola, RNA, Viral, Cluster Analysis, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Phylogeny, Sequence Homology, Adult, Infant, Female, Male, Ebolavirus, Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical, Young Adult