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Volume 22, Number 2—February 2016
Research

Feasibility of Xpert Ebola Assay in Médecins Sans Frontières Ebola Program, Guinea

Rafael Van den BerghComments to Author , Pascale Chaillet, Mamadou Saliou Sow, Mathieu Amand, Charlotte van Vyve, Sylvie Jonckheere, Rosa Crestani, Armand Sprecher, Michel Van Herp, Arlene Chua, Erwan Piriou, Lamine Koivogui, and Annick Antierens
Author affiliations: Médecins Sans Frontières, Brussels, Brussels, Belgium (R. Van den Bergh, P. Chaillet, R. Crestani, A. Sprecher, M. Van Herp, A. Antierens); Hôpital National Donka, Conakry, Guinea (M.S. Sow); Comité de Recherche Ebola de Guinée, Conakry (M.S. Sow); Médecins Sans Frontières, Conakry (M. Amand, C. van Vyve, S. Jonckheere); Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland (A. Chua); Institute of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Singapore (A. Chua); Médecins Sans Frontières, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (E. Piriou); Institut National de Santé Publique, Conakry (L. Koivogui)

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Figure 2

Tukey boxplot of time required from receiving sample in laboratory to obtaining results by Xpert Ebola assay and routine PCR at Médecins Sans Frontières Ebola Donak Treatment Center, Conakry, Guinea, May–June 2015. Boxes indicate first and third quartiles; vertical dashed lines indicate medians; whiskers indicate 1.5 times interquartile ranges (IQRs); asterisks indicate outliers >3 times the IQR; and circles indicate outliers 1.5–3 times the IQR.

Figure 2. Tukey boxplot of time required from receiving sample in laboratory to obtaining results by Xpert Ebola assay and routine PCR at Médecins Sans Frontières Ebola Donka Treatment Center, Conakry, Guinea, May–June 2015. Boxes indicate first and third quartiles; vertical dashed lines indicate medians; whiskers indicate 1.5 times interquartile ranges (IQRs); asterisks indicate outliers >3 times the IQR; and circles indicate outliers 1.5–3 times the IQR.

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