Browse Items (717 total)

• Recent advances in combating Nipah virus

  Tags Nipah (NiV), R-IPC, Respiratory Pathogen, Zoonotic
  Creator: Kendra Johnson, Michelle Vu, and Alexander N Freiberg.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2021-09-29
  Description: Over the past 20 years, Nipah virus (NiV) has emerged as a significant, highly pathogenic bat-borne paramyxovirus causing severe respiratory disease and encephalitis in humans, and human-to-human transmission has been demonstrated in multiple…
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  NETEC: Annual Report FY2022

  Tags NETEC, R-Lead
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2023-08-07
  Description: The Year 7 Annual Report for NETEC from 2022.
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  Monkeypox: A Contemporary Review for Healthcare Professionals

  Tags Emergency Management, Mpox, R-Res&Pub, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Boghuma K Titanji, Bryan Tegomoh, Saman Nematollahi, Michael Konomos, Prathit A Kulkarni
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2022-06-23
  Description: We present in this review an updated overview of monkeypox for healthcare professionals in the context of the ongoing outbreaks around the world.

• MEDICAL-TECHNICAL SPECIALIST: BIOLOGICAL/INFECTIOUS DISEASE

  Tags EMS, Example, HICS, R-EMS
  Creator: California Emergency Medical Services Authority
  Subject: Emergency Medical Services
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2014
  Description: Hospital Incident Command System – Job Action Sheets – Medical-Technical Specialists - Biological/Infectious Disease

  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.

• Evaluation and comparison of three virucidal agents on inactivation of Nipah virus

  Tags Nipah (NiV), R-Lab, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Huang, Yi, Shuqi Xiao, Donglin Song, and Zhiming Yuan.
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2022-07-05
  Description: Modern human activity is profoundly changing our relationship with microorganisms with the startling rise in the rate of emerging infectious diseases. Nipah virus together with Ebola virus and SARS-CoV-2 are prominent examples.

• Using healthcare-seeking behaviour to estimate the number of Nipah outbreaks missed by hospital-based surveillance in Bangladesh

  Tags Nipah (NiV), R-EM, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Hegde, S. T., H. Salje, H. M. S. Sazzad, M. J. Hossain, M. Rahman, P. Daszak, J. D. Klena, S. T. Nichol, S. P. Luby, and E. S. Gurley.
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-08-01
  Description: Understanding the true burden of emergent diseases is critical for assessing public-health impact. However, surveillance often relies on hospital systems that only capture a minority of cases. We use the example of Nipah-virus infection in…

• Safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and immunogenicity of a human monoclonal antibody targeting the G glycoprotein of henipaviruses in healthy adults: a first-in-human, randomised, controlled, phase 1 study

  Tags Nipah (NiV), R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Trial
  Creator: Playford, E. G., T. Munro, S. M. Mahler, S. Elliott, M. Gerometta, K. L. Hoger, M. L. Jones, P. Griffin, K. D. Lynch, H. Carroll, D. El Saadi, M. E. Gilmour, B. Hughes, K. Hughes, E. Huang, C. de Bakker, R. Klein, M. G. Scher, I. L. Smith, L. F.…
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-04
  Description: The monoclonal antibody m102.4 is a potent, fully human antibody that neutralises Hendra and Nipah viruses in vitro and in vivo. We aimed to investigate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and immunogenicity of m102.4 in healthy adults.

• Remdesivir (GS-5734) protects African green monkeys from Nipah virus challenge

  Tags Nipah (NiV), R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Remdesivir
  Creator: Michael K. Lo, Friederike Feldmann, Joy M. Gary, Robert Jordan, Roy Bannister, Jacqueline Cronin, Nishi R. Patel, John D. Klena, Stuart T. Nichol, Tomas Cihlar, Sherif R. Zaki, Heinz Feldmann, Christina F. Spiropoulou, and Emmie de Wit.
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-05-29
  Description: Nipah virus is an emerging pathogen in the Paramyxoviridae family. Upon transmission of Nipah virus from its natural reservoir, Pteropus spp. fruit bats, to humans, it causes respiratory and neurological disease with a case-fatality rate about 70%.

• Pregnancy in an Ebola outbreak—protecting women and health workers

  Tags Ebola, Neonates, Pregnancy, R-SP, Treatment and Care, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Benjamin Black
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2022-10-28
  Description: Efforts to contain the spread of Ebola shouldn’t compromise healthcare for women experiencing pregnancy complications, says Benjamin Black...
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  South American Hemorrhagic Fevers: A summary for clinicians

  Tags Argentine Hemorrhagic Fever, Junín virus, R-T&C, South American Hemorrhagic Fever (SAHF), Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: The Medical Countermeasures Working Group of the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center’s (NETEC’s) Special Pathogens Research Network (SPRN)
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2021-02-18
  Description: This article is one of a series on acute, severe diseases of humans caused by emerging viruses for which there are no or limited licensed medical countermeasures. We approached this summary on South American Hemorrhagic Fevers (SAHF) from a clinical…