Contributors
Gibrilla Fadlu Deen: Role: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: VisualizationRole:
Writing – review & editing
Suzanna L. R. McDonald:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2363-2812
Role: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole:
SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole:
Writing – review & editing
Jaclyn E. Marrinan: Role: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole:
SoftwareRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing
– review & editing
Foday R. Sesay: Role: InvestigationRole: Project administration
Elizabeth Ervin: Role: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole:
Validation
Anna E. Thorson: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole:
ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing
– review & editing
Wenbo Xu: Role: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole:
SupervisionRole: Validation
Ute Ströher: Role: ConceptualizationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: SoftwareRole:
SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Patricia Ongpin: Role: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Neetu Abad: Role: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole:
Writing – review & editing
Archchun Ariyarajah: Role: InvestigationRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: Validation
Tasneem Malik: Role: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole:
Writing – review & editing
Hongtu Liu: Role: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole:
SoftwareRole: SupervisionRole: Validation
Christine Ross: Role: ConceptualizationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole:
ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Kara N. Durski: Role: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole:
SoftwareRole: SupervisionRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing
– review & editing
Philippe Gaillard: Role: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole:
SoftwareRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – review
& editing
Oliver Morgan: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole:
SupervisionRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – review & editing
Pierre Formenty: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole:
SoftwareRole: SupervisionRole: Validation
Barbara Knust: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SoftwareRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole:
VisualizationRole: Writing – review & editing
Nathalie Broutet: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole:
ResourcesRole: SoftwareRole: SupervisionRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – review
& editing
Foday Sahr: Role: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: Supervision
Townsend Peterson: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS Negl Trop Dis
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS Negl Trop Dis
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosntds
Title:
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Print):
1935-2727
ISSN
(Electronic):
1935-2735
Publication date
(Electronic):
11
September
2017
Publication date Collection:
September
2017
Volume: 11
Issue: 9
Electronic Location Identifier: e0005723
Affiliations
[1
]
Clinical Studies, Internal Medicine, Connaught Hospital, Ministry of Health and Sanitation,
Freetown, Sierra Leone
[2
]
Comprehensive Care & Support for EVD Survivors, EVD Research, World Health Organization,
Freetown, Sierra Leone
[3
]
34 Military Hospital, Sierra Leone Ministry of Defence, Freetown, Sierra Leone
[4
]
Viral Special Pathogens Branch, Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology,
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
[5
]
Department of Reproductive Health and Research, Family, Women's and Children's Health,
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
[6
]
National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease
Control and Prevention, Beijing, People's Republic of China
[7
]
Sierra Leone-China Friendship Biological Safety Laboratory, Chinese Center for Disease
Control and Prevention, Freetown, Sierra Leone
[8
]
Strategic information, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Freetown, Sierra
Leone
[9
]
Social & Behavioral Research and Evaluation Branch, Division of Sexually Transmitted
Disease Prevention, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, & TB Prevention,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
[10
]
Office of Global Activities, Division of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention,
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, & TB Prevention, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
[11
]
HIV Care and Treatment Branch, Division of Global HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis, Center
for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United
States of America
[12
]
Pandemic and Epidemic Disease Department, Outbreaks and Health Emergencies, World
Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
[13
]
Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
The University of Kansas, UNITED STATES
Author notes
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
¶ Membership of the Sierra Leone Ebola Virus Persistence Study Group is listed in
the Acknowledgments.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PNTD-D-17-00141
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005723
PMC ID: 5593174
PubMed ID: 28892501
SO-VID: b7ee3612-8f86-4538-88ef-5f4da85e1331
License:
This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced,
distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any
lawful purpose. The work is made available under the
Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication.
History
Date
received
: 31
January
2017
Date
accepted
: 18
June
2017
Page count
Figures: 1,
Tables: 1,
Pages: 18
Funding
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000952, Paul G. Allen Family Foundation;
Award Recipient
:
Nathalie Broutet
Funding was provided by the World Health Organization (PF NB), the United States Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (BK OM STN), the Chinese Center for Disease Control
and Prevention (WX HL WJL YZ GW ML), and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation (
http://www.pgafamilyfoundation.org/) (PF NB AET). The World Health Organization gratefully acknowledges the financial
contribution of the WHO's Ebola Response Programme (PF), The Paul G. Allen Family
Foundation (NB PF AET), and the UNDP-UNFPA-UNICEF-WHO-World Bank Special Programme
of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP) (NB) in
support of the Sierra Leone Ebola Virus Persistence Study. The funders had no role
in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation
of the manuscript. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and
do not necessarily represent the official positions, decisions, policy or views of
the Government of Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Ministry of Defence,
the World Health Organization, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
or the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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