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Get introduced to NETEC through the interactive timeline of special pathogens below.* This timeline describes some significant special pathogen events in recent history.
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Find out more about the 2014 Ebola outbreak and the development of the ASPR/CDC-supported network of healthcare facilities preparing for the next outbreak through .
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This NETEC Repository helps to provide training and educational resources to prepare for future special pathogen events.
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Explore the files BELOW THE TIMELINE to discover and learn more about Ebola and other Special Pathogens, an overview of special pathogens, clinically managing patients affected, and readying healthcare teams and systems to keep everyone safe.
Timeline of Special Pathogens:
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Collection Resources
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Creator: Mancia, Giuseppe, Federico Rea, Monica Ludergnani, Giovanni Apolone, and Giovanni Corrao.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-01
Description: A potential association between the use of angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARBs) and angiotensin-converting–enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and the risk of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) has not been well studied. -
Creator: Jarcho, John A., Julie R. Ingelfinger, Mary Beth Hamel, Ralph B. D’Agostino, and David P. Harrington.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-01
Description: SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, enters human cells by binding of its viral spike protein to the membrane-bound form of the aminopeptidase angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2). -
Creator: Hammami, Muhammad Baraa, Brian Garibaldi, Pali Shah, Gigi Liu, Tania Jain, Po-Hung Chen, Amy K. Kim, Edina Avdic, Brent Petty, Sara Strout, Derek M. Fine, Ashwini Niranjan-Azadi, William M. Garneau, Andrew M. Cameron, Jose M. Monroy Trujillo, Ahmet…
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-02
Description: The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a highly infectious and rapidly spreading disease. There are limited published data on the epidemiology and outcomes of COVID-19 infection among organ transplant recipients. -
Creator: Lang, Min, Avik Som, Dexter P. Mendoza, Efren J. Flores, Nicholas Reid, Denston Carey, Matthew D. Li, Alison Witkin, Josanna M. Rodriguez-Lopez, Jo-Anne O. Shepard, and Brent P. Little.
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-30
Description: Studies have shown that some patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure have preserved lung compliance, suggesting that processes other than alveolar damage might be involved in hypoxaemia related to… -
Creator: Bornstein, Stefan R., Francesco Rubino, Kamlesh Khunti, Geltrude Mingrone, David Hopkins, Andreas L. Birkenfeld, Bernhard Boehm, Stephanie Amiel, Richard I. G. Holt, Jay S. Skyler, J. Hans DeVries, Eric Renard, Robert H. Eckel, Paul Zimmet, Kurt…
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-23
Description: Diabetes is one of the most important comorbidities linked to the severity of all three known human pathogenic coronavirus infections, including severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. -
Creator: Zulfiqar, Abrar-Ahmad, Noël Lorenzo-Villalba, Patrick Hassler, and Emmanuel Andrès.
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-30
Description: A 65-year-old woman with hypertension, autoimmune hypothyroidism, and known Covid-19 exposure presented to the emergency department with a 4-day history of fatigue, fever, dry cough, and abdominal discomfort. -
Creator: Zou, Ying, Hongying Guo, Yuyi Zhang, Zhengguo Zhang, Yu Liu, Jiefei Wang, Hongzhou Lu, and Zhiping Qian.
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-29
Description: To investigate the characteristic of coagulation function in 303 patients with Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), we evaluated the correlation between coagulation function and disease status. We retrospectively analyzed 303 patients diagnosed with… -
Creator: Haberman, Rebecca, Jordan Axelrad, Alan Chen, Rochelle Castillo, Di Yan, Peter Izmirly, Andrea Neimann, Samrachana Adhikari, David Hudesman, and Jose U. Scher.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-29
Description: Data on Covid-19 in patients with immune-mediated inflammatory disease who have received anticytokine biologics, other immunomodulatory therapies, or both on a long-term basis are scarce. -
Creator: CDC
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Webinar
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-01
Description: CDC’s NHSN has built a customizable module for long term care facilities to track infections and prevention process measures in a systematic way. Join this webinar to learn about the enrollment process and guidance. -
Creator: CDC
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Webinar
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-30
Description: CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) provides healthcare facilities, such as long term care facilities with a customized system or module to track infections and prevention process measures in a systematic way. Join the webinar to learn…
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