Zaire virus

(zah-ēr'),

a variant of Ebola virus.

Synonym(s): Ebola virus Zaire

Za·ire vi·rus

(zī-ēr' vī'rŭs)

A variant of Ebola virus.
Synonym(s): Ebola virus Zaire.

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Cause: Five strains of Ebola virus have been identified 6 Bundibugyo virus, Sudan virus, Tai Forest virus, Zaire virus and Reston virus.

Everything You Need To Know About Ebola Outbreak 2019

Developed by scientists at the PHAC's National Microbiology Laboratory and based on the same platform used to produce Merck's successful Ebola Zaire virus vaccine, this candidate provided high-level protection from Lassa fever virus in previously conducted animal studies.

IAVI, the Public Health Agency of Canada Enter into License Agreement for Technology to Enable Lassa Fever Vaccine Development

It was reported yesterday that the agreement has potential future options totalling USD6.3m to support the development of vaccines against filovirus species including Marburg and Ebola Sudan viruses, which could be combined with Ebola Zaire virus in a multivalent vaccine formulation or vaccination schedule.

NewLink Genetics receives contract from US Department of Defense

Zaire virus is most dangerous known EVD causing specie.

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- US-based diagnostic test developer Cepheid (NASDAQ: CPHD) has received Emergency Use Authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration for Xpert Ebola, a molecular diagnostic test for Ebola Zaire Virus that delivers results in less than two hours.

FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorisation for Cepheid Ebola Diagnostic Test

The experimental vaccines now moving into large clinical trials in West Africa target the current Ebola Zaire virus strain, but the next outbreak may be different.

Analysis: In pursuit of next-generation Ebola stockpile vaccines

Synthetic constructed mouse CpG motifs showed a 100% successful prevention of mouse-adapted EBOV lethality when injected intraperitoneally either 24 hours before or 24 hours after a lethal challenge with mouse-adapted Ebola Zaire virus. Identical results were achieved in guinea pigs when injected with synthetic constructed guinea pig CpG motifs and challenged with a 100% lethal Ebola Zaire virus titer, (77) as first noted by S.J.

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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials recently issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for Utah-based BioFire Defense LLC's FilmArray Biothreat-E test for the detection of the Ebola Zaire virus. The test runs and can only be used with the device maker's FilmArray systems.

FDA issues emergency use authorization for Ebola diagnostic device

Bukreyev's research group made the discovery after a series of procedures that started with a clone of the Ebola Zaire virus strain.

How Ebola virus evades human immune response

Potentially positive serum samples were tested by ELISA against each nucleoprotein independently to confirm reactivity and by Western blotting against nucleoproteins of Reston and Zaire virus strains as described (10).

Ebola virus antibodies in fruit bats, Bangladesh

The Zaire virus is the type species, which is also the first discovered and the most lethal.