Lactating mothers infected with Ebola virus: EBOV RT-PCR of blood only may be insufficient.

M Moreau ([email protected])1,2, C Spencer2,3, J G Gozalbes2, R Colebunders4,5, A Lefevre2,6, S Gryseels7,8, B Borremans7,8, S Gunther7,9, D Becker7,10, J A Bore7, F R Koundouno7, A Di Caro7,11, R Wölfel7,12, T Decroo13, M Van Herp13, L Peetermans14, A M Camara15 1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Chrétien, Liège, Belgium 2. Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Brussels, Guéckédou, Guinea 3. Department of Emergency Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, United States of America 4. Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium 5. Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium 6. Department of Pediatrics, Infectious and Tropical Diseases, CHR Citadelle, University of Liège , Liège, Belgium 7. European Mobile Laboratory (EMLab), Hamburg, Germany 8. Evolutionary Ecology Group, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium 9. Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, WHO Collaborating Centre for Arboviruses and Hemorragic Fever Reference and Research, Hamburg, Germany 10. Institute of Virology, Philipps University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany 11. Microbiology laboratory and Infectious Diseases Biorepository, L. Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Rome, Italy 12. Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany 13. Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Brussels, Medical Department, Brussels, Belgium 14. Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, University Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium 15. Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Donka, Conakry, Guinea