Browse Items (1475 total)

• Ebola virus disease: implications for solid organ transplantation

  Tags Antibodies, Contact Transmission, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, R-DM, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, Virology
  Creator: Kaul, D. R., A. K. Mehta, C. R. Wolfe, E. Blumberg, and M. Green
  Subject: Decedent Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-01
  Description: The authors recommend a simple, common‐sense approach to screening deceased and living donors for exposure to Ebola virus and thus reducing the risk of Ebola virus transmission from organ donor to recipient.

• Ebola Virus Disease: Insights from a Unique Patient and Ecological Analyses

  Tags Ebola, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, Laboratory Testing, Outcomes, Patient Care, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Video
  Date Last Updated: 2019-05-29
  Description: CC Grand Rounds: Clinicopathologic Grand Rounds: Clinical Cases from the NIH: Clinical Center Ebola Virus: An Update on Ecology and Molecular Correlates of Critical Illness. This lecture by Vincent Munster and Daniel S. Chertow presents a case study…
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  Ebola virus disease: preparedness and infection control lessons learned from two biocontainment units

  Tags Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Isolation/Biocontainment, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-T&E, Training
  Creator: Hewlett, A. L., J. B. Varkey, P. W. Smith and B. S. Ribner
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-08-01
  Description: This review details infection control issues encountered in the management of patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD), with emphasis on how these issues were confronted in two biocontainment patient care units in the United States.

• Ebola Virus Epidemiology and Evolution in Nigeria.

  Tags Ebola, Outbreaks, R-Res&Pub, Virology
  Creator: Folarin OA, Ehichioya D, Schaffner SF, Winnicki SM, Wohl S, Eromon P, West KL, Gladden-Young A, Oyejide NE, Matranga CB, Deme AB, James A, Tomkins-Tinch C, Onyewurunwa K, Ladner JT, Palacios G, Nosamiefan I, Andersen KG, Omilabu S, Park DJ, Yozwiak…
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-10-15
  Description: Containment limited the 2014 Nigerian Ebola virus (EBOV) disease outbreak to 20 reported cases and 8 fatalities. We present here clinical data and contact information for at least 19 case patients, and full-length EBOV genome sequences for 12 of the…
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  Ebola Virus Persistence in Ocular Tissues and Fluids (EVICT) Study: Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction and Cataract Surgery Outcomes of Ebola Survivors in Sierra Leone

  Tags Ebola, Eye/Ocular Health, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C
  Creator: Shantha, J. G., J. G. Mattia, A. Goba, K. G. Barnes, F. K. Ebrahim, C. S. Kraft, B. R. Hayek, J. N. Hartnett, J. G. Shaffer, J. S. Schieffelin, J. D. Sandi, M. Momoh, S. Jalloh, D. S. Grant, K. Dierberg, J. Chang, S. Mishra, A. K. Chan, R. Fowler, T.…
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-04
  Description: Ebola virus disease (EVD) survivors are at risk for uveitis during convalescence. Vision loss has been observed following uveitis due to cataracts.
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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.
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  Ebola Virus Transmission Initiated by Relapse of Systemic Ebola Virus Disease

  Tags Case Study, Contact Transmission, Ebola, R-Res&Pub, Treatment and Care, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Mbala-Kingebeni, Placide, Catherine Pratt, Mbusa Mutafali-Ruffin, Matthias G. Pauthner, Faustin Bile, Antoine Nkuba-Ndaye, Allison Black, Eddy Kinganda-Lusamaki, Martin Faye, Amuri Aziza, Moussa M. Diagne, Daniel Mukadi, Bailey White, James Hadfield,…
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2021-03-31
  Description: During the 2018–2020 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, EVD was diagnosed in a patient who had received the recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus–based vaccine expressing a ZEBOV…
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  Ebola-Marburg R&D (Research and Development) Roadmap

  Tags Ebola, Marburg, R-Res&Pub, Research Design
  Creator: CIDRAP
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Webinar
  Date Last Updated: 2018-05-15
  Description: Video explaining the WHO's Research and Development Roadmap.
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  Ebola: characterization, history and cutaneous manifestations/ Ébola: caracterización, historia y manifestaciones cutáneas; lo que debemos saber

  Tags Diagnosis, Ebola, Epidemiology, Español, Outbreaks, Patient Support, R-Res&Pub, Spanish, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Kolbach M, Carrasco-Zuber JE, Vial-Letelier V.
  Subject: Elementos en Español
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-11-01
  Description: Ebola virus (EV) is one of the most virulent human pathogens. Fruits bats are its natural reservoir, the transmission to humans is across wild animals (especially primates) and the propagation in human populations is through bodily fluid contact.

• Ebola: Clinical management of Ebola virus disease

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Critical Care, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-T&C, Therapeutics
  Creator: WHO
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Online Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018-07-05
  Description: This comprehensive intermediate level course is for clinicians caring for patients with suspected or confirmed Ebola virus disease (EVD). Modules provide information on screening and triage, infection prevention and control, laboratory diagnostics,…