A Field-Deployable Reverse Transcription Recombinase Polymerase Amplification Assay for Rapid Detection of the Chikungunya Virus

• Pranav Patel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pranav Patel, Ahmed Abd El Wahed

  Affiliation Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Ahmed Abd El Wahed ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pranav Patel, Ahmed Abd El Wahed

  Affiliation Division of Microbiology and Animal Hygiene, Georg-August-University, Goettingen, Germany

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• Oumar Faye,

  Affiliation Arbovirus Unit, Pasteur Institute, Dakar, Senegal

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• Pauline Prüger,

  Affiliation Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Marco Kaiser,

  Affiliation GenExpress Gesellschaft für Proteindesign, Berlin, Germany

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• Sasikanya Thaloengsok,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Sukathida Ubol,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Anavaj Sakuntabhai,

  Affiliation Functional Genetics of Infectious Diseases Unit, Institute Pasteur, Paris, France

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• Isabelle Leparc-Goffart,

  Affiliation French Armed Force Biomedical Research Institute (IRBA) Marseille, France

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• Frank T. Hufert,

  Affiliation Institute of Microbiology & Virology, Brandenburg Medical School Fontane, Senftenberg, Germany

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• Amadou A. Sall,

  Affiliation Arbovirus Unit, Pasteur Institute, Dakar, Senegal

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• Manfred Weidmann,

  Affiliation Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom

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• Matthias Niedrig

  * E-mail: niedrigm@rki.de

  Affiliation Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

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