Marburg hemorrhagic fever laboratory findings
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Differentiating Marburg hemorrhagic fever from other Diseases |
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Laboratory Studies
Marburg virus infections can be diagnosed definitively only in laboratories, by a number of different tests as follows.
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| Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) |
| Reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay |
| Serum neutralization test |
| Antigen detection tests |
| Virus isolation by cell culture |
Tests on clinical samples present an extreme biohazard risk and are conducted only under maximum biological containment conditions. In deceased patients, immunohistochemistry, virus isolation, or PCR of blood or tissue specimens may be used to diagnose Marburg HF retrospectively.