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Creator: Wellcome Trust
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2018-12
Description: Timely access to data during infectious disease outbreaks by those involved in research preparedness and response provides essential input for public health response and for outbreak-related research. -
Creator: Oduyebo, Titilope, Sarah D. Bennett, Alhaji S. Nallo, Denise J. Jamieson, Sascha Ellington, Kerry Souza, Dana Meaney-Delman, and John T. Redd.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2018-12-09
Description: Stillbirth and neonatal death reporting and testing improved over time. -
Creator: Editor Bruce Hawkins
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019
Description: The purpose of these guidelines is to describe a standardized approach for the management of investigational drug products by the clinical research pharmacy, pharmaceutical industry, and cooperative and research network groups. -
Creator: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [National Institutes of Health] NIH (NIAID)
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-01-04
Description: The 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa was the largest in history, with nearly 28,700 cases and more than 11,300 deaths. As local and international healthcare workers responded to the outbreak, the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and… -
Creator: Fallah MP, Skrip LA.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-01-24
Description: This article reviews the testing of Ebola therapies during the outbreak. -
Creator: McElroy, A. K., P. Shrivastava-Ranjan, J. R. Harmon, R. B. Martines, L. Silva-Flannery, T. D. Flietstra, C. S. Kraft, A. K. Mehta, G. M. Lyon, J. B. Varkey, B. S. Ribner, S. T. Nichol, S. R. Zaki, and C. F. Spiropoulou
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-02
Description: Ebola virus disease (EVD) is associated with elevated cytokine levels, and hypercytokinemia is more pronounced in fatal cases. This type of hyperinflammatory state is reminiscent of 2 rheumatologic disorders known as macrophage activation syndrome… -
Creator: Theodore J. Cieslak, Laura Evans, Mark G. Kortepeter, Amanda Grindle, Lemuel Aigbivbalu, Kate Boulter, Ryan W. Carroll, Sylvia Cumplido, Alison G. Danforth, Cecilia Fry, James Gaensbauer, Janet R. Hume, Amyna Husain, Arlene Kelleher, Christopher J.…
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-02-19
Description: During the outbreak of Ebola virus disease that struck West Africa during 2014-2016, a small handful of expatriate patients were evacuated to specialized high-level containment care units, or biocontainment units, in the United States and Western… -
Creator: Colleen S. Kraft, Mark G. Kortepeter, Bruce Gordon, Lauren M. Sauer, Erica S. Shenoy, Daniel P. Eiras, LuAnn Larson, Jennifer A. Garland, Aneesh K. Mehta, Kevin Barrett, Connie S. Price, Caroline Croyle, Lauren R. West, Brooke Noren, Susan Kline,…
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-02-19
Description: The 2013-2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease (EVD) that originated in West Africa underscored many of the challenges to conducting clinical research during an ongoing infectious disease epidemic, both in the most affected countries of Guinea,… -
Creator: NETEC SPRN Medical Countermeasures Working Group
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-02-19
Description: Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases pose growing global public health threats. However, research on and development of medical countermeasures (MCMs) for such pathogens is limited by the sporadic and unpredictable nature of outbreaks, lack… -
Creator: Angela Vasa, Syra Madad, LuAnn Larson, Colleen S. Kraft, Sharon Vanairsdale, Jonathan D. Grein, Jennifer Garland, Virginia “Madison” Butterworth, and Christopher J. Kratochvil.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-02-19
Description: The use of investigational therapeutics in the care of patients with Ebola virus disease was documented in the literature following the 2013-2016 outbreak. In order to access these types of therapeutics, facilities must have processes in place to…