Need for Local Laboratory Reference Values in Recruitment into Studies of Emerging Infectious Diseases: Insight from Participant Screening for an Ebola Vaccine Trial in a Rural African Setting

Need for Local Laboratory Reference Values in Recruitment into Studies of Emerging Infectious Diseases: Insight from Participant Screening for an Ebola Vaccine Trial in a Rural African Setting

<b>Introduction</b>: The EBOVAC-Salone trial of a candidate Ebola two-dose vaccine regimen (Ad.ZEBOV/MVA-BN-Filo) was conducted in a research-naïve setting in rural northern Sierra Leone, where no local laboratory reference values (LRV) had been established. In the first stage (n = 43) o...

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Main Authors: David Ishola, Bailah Leigh, Emma Hancox, Hannah Hafezi, Dickens Kowuor, Brian Kohn, Daniel Tindanbil, Kwabena Owusu-Kyei, Muhammed Afolabi, Frank Baiden, Baimba Rogers, Alimamy Serry-Bangura, Agnes Bangura, Tuda Otieno, Daniela Manno, Philip Ayieko, Mohamed Samai, Brett Lowe, Brian Greenwood, Deborah Watson-Jones
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-05-01
Series:Proceedings
Subjects:
Sierra Leone
Ebola
laboratory
laboratory reference values
clinical trial
participant screening
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3900/45/1/8

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