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Creator: Petersen, Eskild, Marion Koopmans, Unyeong Go, Davidson H. Hamer, Nicola Petrosillo, Francesco Castelli, Merete Storgaard, Sulien Al Khalili, and Lone Simonsen.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-07-03
Description: The objective of this Personal View is to compare transmissibility, hospitalisation, and mortality rates for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) with those of other epidemic coronaviruses, such as severe acute respiratory… -
Creator: Chung, Sheng-Chia, Rui Providencia, and Reecha Sofat.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-08
Description: Some researchers have hypothesized that drugs that interfere with the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system (RAAS), including angiotensin-converting–enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARBs), may increase susceptibility to… -
Creator: Modjarrad, Kayvon, and Jerome H. Kim.
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-20
Description: Since the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in 2002, the emergence and expansion of endemic and epidemic coronaviruses has been accelerating on a scale not seen for any other group of viruses with pandemic… -
Creator: JEMS Webcast, Alexander Isakov, Michael J. Carr, Ben Tysor, and Wade Miles
Subject: Pre-hospital
Item Type: Webinar
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-07
Description: This webcast aims to increase awareness about standard and transmission-based infection-control practices and teaches learners how the “Identify, Isolates and Inform” strategy can improve their ability to recognize and manage an infectious disease… -
Creator: Wilder-Smith, Annelies, Calvin J. Chiew, and Vernon J. Lee.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-05
Description: The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003 resulted in more than 8000 cases and 800 deaths. -
Creator: Nextstrain
Subject: Research
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-04
Description: Nextstrain is incorporating nCoV genomes as soon as they are shared and providing analyses and situation reports. Please see below for the latest updates. -
Creator: Chughtai, Abrar Ahmad, Holly Seale, and Chandini Raina MacIntyre.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2013-05-31
Description: Currently there is an ongoing debate and limited evidence on the use of masks and respirators for the prevention of respiratory infections in health care workers (HCWs). -
Creator: Raboud, Janet, Altynay Shigayeva, Allison McGeer, Erika Bontovics, Martin Chapman, Denise Gravel, Bonnie Henry, Stephen Lapinsky, Mark Loeb, L. Clifford McDonald, Marianna Ofner, Shirley Paton, Donna Reynolds, Damon Scales, Sandy Shen, Andrew Simor,…
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2010-05-19
Description: In the 2003 Toronto SARS outbreak, SARS-CoV was transmitted in hospitals despite adherence to infection control procedures. -
Creator: Cheng, Vincent C. C., Jasper F. W. Chan, Kelvin K. W. To, and K. Y. Yuen.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2013-11
Description: The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003 was the first emergence of an important human pathogen in the 21st century. -
Creator: Tang, Julian W., Andre Nicolle, Jovan Pantelic, Christian A. Klettner, Ruikun Su, Petri Kalliomaki, Pekka Saarinen, Hannu Koskela, Kari Reijula, Panu Mustakallio, David K. W. Cheong, Chandra Sekhar, and Kwok Wai Tham.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2013-06-24
Description: Hospital isolation rooms are vital for the containment (when under negative pressure) of patients with, or the protection (when under positive pressure) of patients, from airborne infectious agents.