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Creator: NETEC
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2023-01-27
Description: This guide, printable flyer, provides laboratory resources related to Poliovirus. This is a part of a series of one-page resource guides for laboratorians. Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a disabling and life-threatening disease caused by the poliovirus.… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2023-02-09
Description: This guide, printable flyer, provides laboratory resources related to Yellow Fever. This is a part of a series of one-page resource guides for laboratorians. The yellow fever virus is found in tropical and subtropical areas of Africa and South… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Checklist
Date Last Updated: 2023-03-31
Description: Purpose: This survey is intended to be a high-level tool to help surveyors, NETEC or the appropriate Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Center (RESPTC), gain basic knowledge about a laboratory's capabilities for testing and handling special… -
Creator: Hill, C. E., E. M. Burd, C. S. Kraft, E. L. Ryan, A. Duncan, A. M. Winkler, J. C. Cardella, J. C. Ritchie and T. G. Parslow
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2014-08-01
Description: Two adult United States (US) nationals contracted the Ebola virus while on a humanitarian mission in Africa amidst a large Ebola outbreak there. -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2022-10-11
Description: This NETEC blog post discusses how Ebola is diagnosed in the laboratory, what to do if Ebola is suspected, assessing the risks prior to specimen collection, collecting and shipping clinical specimens, and managing and testing routine clinical… -
Creator: Oxley, Thomas J., J. Mocco, Shahram Majidi, Christopher P. Kellner, Hazem Shoirah, I. Paul Singh, Reade A. De Leacy, Tomoyoshi Shigematsu, Travis R. Ladner, Kurt A. Yaeger, Maryna Skliut, Jesse Weinberger, Neha S. Dangayach, Joshua B. Bederson,…
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-28
Description: We report five cases of large-vessel stroke in patients younger than 50 years of age who presented to our health system in New York City. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection was diagnosed in all five patients. -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2022-06-29
Description: On this episode of Transmission Interrupted, we welcome Dr. Jared Evans, Dr. Aneesh Mehta, and Dr. Vanessa Rabbe—members of NETEC’s Special Pathogen Research Network—to discuss their recent manuscript entitled, “Lassa Virus Infection: a Summary for… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2022-06-13
Description: This blog post covers infection control, biocontainment, PPE, and related topics for Lassa Fever patients. Because of the high degree of mortality associated with infection, patients infected with or suspected to be infected with Lassa virus should… -
Creator: WHO
Subject: Training and Exercises
Item Type: Online Course
Date Last Updated: 2018-07-05
Description: Lassa fever, a viral haemorrhagic fever with symptoms similar to those of Ebola virus disease, is endemic in much of West Africa and usually sparks a seasonal outbreak from December to March. Humans usually become infected with Lassa virus from… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2022-06-29
Description: Lassa virus infection can result in a broad spectrum of clinical signs and symptoms, from asymptomatic or very minimal symptoms to the severe manifestation, a viral hemorrhagic fever. In addition, the early symptoms of Lassa fever are similar in…