Kristian G. AndersenGeverifieerd account

Out of the 3 possibilities: 1.) Relapse: most likely, several documented cases. 2.) Reinfection: no case confirmed since 1976, only anecdotal hints on possibility. 3.) False positive and then declared cured and employed as care taker? Very unlikely. Because: Assuming that the

patient had been admitted to a ETC, the first positive test certainly had been followed up by at least 1 more positive and 1 negative, finally before being declared declared cured & fit as becoming a "care taker". GeneXpert real-time RT-PCR uses 2 different gene targets which

There is ... informed discussion of some false positives in this outbreak. People who ended up in ETCs.

Wasn't there a relapse case near the end of the West African outbreak?

There were a few cases where a survivor infected a sexual partner resulting in a cluster of acute cases. But the survivor didn’t have a relapse of disease. The Scottish nurse is the only case I know of where someone become ill again and that was an infection of the CNS.

Thanks, you are right. I was mixing up the sexual transmission case in ... I want to say March 2016 with the case of the Scottish nurse, who has had 2 relapses, I think.

Yes - the last cluster of cases in Guinea and Liberia were the result of transmission from a survivor who had been acutely infected 10 months earlier (he did not become ill again).