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  Pathogen-reduced Ebola virus convalescent plasma: first steps towards standardization of manufacturing and quality control including assessment of Ebola-specific neutralizing antibodies.

  Tags Antibodies, Ebola, Immunology, Laboratory Testing, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Geisen, C., G. Kann, T. Strecker, T. Wolf, G. Schüttfort, M. van Kraaij, S. MacLennan, S. Rummler, C. Weinigel, M. Eickmann, S. K. Fehling, V. Krähling, C. Seidl, E. Seifried, M. Schmidt, and R. Schäfer.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-05
  Description: Ebola virus disease is a public health emergency of international concern, and enormous efforts are being made in the development of vaccines and therapies.

• EVALUATION OF THE PERCEPTION OF RISK IN THE NURSING STAFF IN CARE OF PATIENTS WITH SUSPECTED BIOLOGICAL HAZARD

  Tags Contact Transmission, Droplet Transmission, Ebola, Español, Occupational Exposure, Occupational Health, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, Spanish, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Grau Giner A, Fornieles Moreira M, Márquez Mora M, Moragas Bayés N, Rodríguez Ruiz MJ, Gisbert Cases Á
  Subject: Elementos en Español
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-05-01
  Description: Healthcare personnel is especially vulnerable to the risks derived from their job. The complexity that has the care of patients with Ebola justifies the study of the perception of risk of such professionals.
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  The Creation of a Biocontainment Unit at a Tertiary Care Hospital. The Johns Hopkins Medicine Experience.

  Tags Bioseal, Contact Transmission, Droplet Transmission, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Isolation/Biocontainment, R-PhIn, R-Res&Pub, Region 3, Special Pathogens, Staff Rotation Schedules, Staffing
  Creator: Johns Hopkins
  Subject: Physical Infrastructure
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-05-01
  Description: In response to the 2014-2015 Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa, Johns Hopkins Medicine created a biocontainment unit to care for patients infected with Ebola virus and other high-consequence pathogens.
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  APHL Laboratory Risk Assessment Best Practices Templates

  Tags Example, Lab, Laboratory, R-Lab, Templates
  Creator: Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL)
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2016-05-05
  Description: APHL Laboratory Risk Assessment Best Practices Templates

  Example only: NETEC provides this item for reference purposes but does not endorse its content. Newer versions may be in place at the providing institution.

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  Neonatal Ebola infection: An Interesting Issue in Pediatric Infectious Disease

  Tags Neonates, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, R-T&C
  Creator: Wiwanitkit, V.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-05-09
  Description: Letter to the editor.
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  Preparing for Serious Communicable Diseases in the United States: What the Ebola Virus Epidemic Has Taught Us

  Tags Antibodies, Contact Transmission, Critical Care, Droplet Transmission, Ebola, Epidemic, Infection Prevention and Control, Outbreaks, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Prophylaxis, Public Health, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Therapeutics, Vaccine Study, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Varkey, J. B. and B. S. Ribner
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-06-01
  Description: Ending the West Africa Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak required an unprecedented international response.
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  Provider Down Protocol

  Tags Crisis Standards of Care, Emergency Management, Example, Leadership Toolbox, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Preparedness Tools, Protocol, Provider Down, R-PPE, R-T&E
  Creator: University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Medicine
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: Protocol
  Date Last Updated: 2016-06-01
  Description: Leadership Toolbox, Preparedness: Policies and Procedures Manual Provider Down Protocol

  Example only: NETEC provides this item for reference purposes but does not endorse its content. Newer versions may be in place at the providing institution.

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  The Respiratory Protection Effectiveness Clinical Trial (ResPECT): a cluster-randomized comparison of respirator and medical mask effectiveness against respiratory infections in healthcare personnel

  Tags Airborne Transmission, Mask, Masks, N95, Occupational Exposure, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Respiratory Pathogen
  Creator: Radonovich, Lewis J., Mary T. Bessesen, Derek A. Cummings, Aaron Eagan, Charlotte Gaydos, Cynthia Gibert, Geoffrey J. Gorse, Ann-Christine Nyquist, Nicholas G. Reich, Maria Rodrigues-Barradas, Connie Savor-Price, Ronald E. Shaffer, Michael S.…
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-06-02
  Description: Although N95 filtering facepiece respirators and medical masks are commonly used for protection against respiratory infections in healthcare settings, more clinical evidence is needed to understand the optimal settings and exposure circumstances for…
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  Ebola Virus Persistence in Semen of Male Survivors

  Tags Ebola, Follow up, Laboratory Testing, Public Health, R-Res&Pub, Specimen Collection, Specimen Handling, Survivors, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Uyeki, T. M., B. R. Erickson, S. Brown, A. K. McElroy, D. Cannon, A. Gibbons, T. Sealy, M. H. Kainulainen, A. J. Schuh, C. S. Kraft, A. K. Mehta, G. M. Lyon, 3rd, J. B. Varkey, B. S. Ribner, R. T. Ellison, 3rd, E. Carmody, G. J. Nau, C. Spiropoulou,…
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-06-15
  Description: We investigated the duration of Ebola virus (EBOV) RNA and infectious EBOV in semen specimens of 5 Ebola virus disease (EVD) survivors.

• Roots, Not Parachutes: Research Collaborations Combat Outbreaks

  Tags Infection Prevention and Control, Outbreaks, Preparedness, R-EM, R-Res&Pub, Research, Research Design
  Creator: Nathan L. Yozwiak, Christian T. Happi, Donald S. Grant, John S. Schieffelin, Robert F. Garry, Pardis C. Sabeti, and Kristian G. Andersen, on behalf of the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium and the African Center of Excellence for Genomics of…
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-06-30
  Description: Summary
  
  Recent infectious disease epidemics illustrate how health systems failures anywhere can create disease vulnerabilities everywhere. We must therefore prioritize investments in health care infrastructure in outbreak-prone regions of the…