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Creator: Wells, Jill R., Ian Crozier, Colleen S. Kraft, Mary Elizabeth Sexton, Charles E. Hill, Bruce S. Ribner, Sina Bavari, Gustavo Palacios, William A. Pearce, Russell Van Gelder, Hans Grossniklaus, Lisa Cazares, Xiankung Zeng, Jessica G. Shantha, and…
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-07
Description: A 46-year-old patient with previously documented Ebola virus persistence in his ocular fluid, associated with severe panuveitis, developed a visually significant cataract. A multidisciplinary approach was taken to prevent and control infection.This…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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Creator: Caleo, Grazia, Foivi Theocharaki, Kamalini Lokuge, Helen A. Weiss, Leena Inamdar, Francesco Grandesso, Kostas Danis, Biagio Pedalino, Gary Kobinger, Armand Sprecher, Jane Greig, and Gian Luca Di Tanna.
Subject: General
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-06-25
Description: Ebola virus disease case definition is a crucial surveillance tool to detect suspected cases for referral and as a screening tool for clinicians to support admission and laboratory testing decisions at Ebola health facilities. We aimed to assess the… -
Creator: Borromeo Flinn, Jade, Jesse J. Benza, Lauren M. Sauer, Christopher Sulmonte, Noreen A. Hynes, and Brian T. Garibaldi.
Subject: Physical Infrastructure
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-06-17
Description: The biocontainment unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital is a specially designed, inactive high-level isolation unit designated to care for patients infected with high-consequence pathogens. The unit team designed a facility-specific readiness scale and…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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Creator: Wilkason, Colby, Christopher Lee, Lauren M. Sauer, Jennifer Nuzzo, and Amanda McClelland.
Subject: Personnel Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-06
Description: The 2014-2016 West African Ebola epidemic was devastating in many respects, not least of which was the impact on healthcare systems and their health workforce. Healthcare workers—including physicians, clinical officers, nurses, midwives, and… -
Creator: Iversen, Patrick L., Christopher D. Kane, Xiankun Zeng, Rekha G. Panchal, Travis K. Warren, Sheli R. Radoshitzky, Jens H. Kuhn, Rajini R. Mudhasani, Christopher L. Cooper, Amy C. Shurtleff, Farooq Nasar, Melek M. E. Sunay, Allen J. Duplantier, Brett…
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-06-18
Description: The PALM trial in the Democratic Republic of the Congo identified a statistically significant survival benefit for two monoclonal antibody-based therapeutics in the treatment of acute Ebola virus disease; however, substantial gaps remain in improving… -
Creator: McElroy, Anita K., Rama S. Akondy, David R. McLlwain, Han Chen, Zach Bjornson-Hooper, Nilanjan Mukherjee, Aneesh K. Mehta, Garry Nolan, Stuart T. Nichol, and Christina F. Spiropoulou.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-21
Description: A complete understanding of human immune responses to Ebola virus infection is limited by the availability of specimens and the requirement for biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) containment. -
Creator: Yager, Phoebe H., Kimberly A. Whalen, and Brian M. Cummings.
Subject: Physical Infrastructure
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-15
Description: On April 2, 2020, the Massachusetts General Hospital incident command team determined that no pediatric patients at MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC), a hospital within a hospital, would use a ventilator, given the presence of other…Conservation strategies: This resource contains recommendations facilitating conservation of equipment and supplies during contingency (expected shortages) and crisis (known shortages) capacities and should not be applied as guidance when conventional capacities are available.
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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Creator: Feldmann, Heinz, Armand Sprecher, and Thomas W. Geisbert.
Subject: General
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-07
Description: Ebola virus (EBOV) was the best-known and most extensively studied member of the Filoviridae family (Mononegavirales order) long before the shattering 2013–2016 West African epidemic. The virologic taxon Filoviridae was defined in 1982 and… -
Creator: Castanha, Priscila M. S., and Ernesto T. A. Marques.
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-06
Description: The North and South American continents experienced a major epidemic of Zika virus in 2015–16, which infected up to 70% of the population in some areas. -
Creator: Thorson, Anna E., Megan E. Foeller, Severine Caluwaerts, Carolina Ribeiro do Valle, Ian Crozier, Gibrilla Deen, Devika Dixit, Chrissy Godwin, Pius Okong, Rachel Esteves Soeiro, João Paulo Sousa, Michel van Herp, Maurice Bucagu, Alejandro Costa, Megan…
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-06
Description: Providing care for pregnant and breastfeeding women with Ebola virus disease is complex and requires expertise in infectious diseases, obstetrics, and gynaecology.
