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Discover Background Data and Resources:

• Get introduced to NETEC through the interactive timeline of special pathogens below.* This timeline describes some significant special pathogen events in recent history.

• Find out more about the 2014 Ebola outbreak and the development of the ASPR/CDC-supported network of healthcare facilities preparing for the next outbreak through the Ebola timeline.

• This NETEC Repository helps to provide training and educational resources to prepare for future special pathogen events.

• Explore the files BELOW THE TIMELINE to discover and learn more about Ebola and other Special Pathogens, an overview of special pathogens, clinically managing patients affected, and readying healthcare teams and systems to keep everyone safe.

Timeline of Special Pathogens:

*Click for a screen reader accessible table of this timeline.

Collection Resources

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  Risk Factors for SARS Transmission from Patients Requiring Intubation: A Multicentre Investigation in Toronto, Canada

  Etiquetas Airborne Transmission, Coronavirus, Infection Prevention and Control, Occupational Exposure, R-T&C, Respiratory Pathogen, SARS
  Autor: 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,…
  Tema: Infection Control
  Tipo de elemento: Publicación
  Fecha de actualización: 2010-05-19
  Descripción: In the 2003 Toronto SARS outbreak, SARS-CoV was transmitted in hospitals despite adherence to infection control procedures.
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  Severe Febrile Respiratory Illnesses As a Cause of Mass Critical Care

  Etiquetas Critical Care, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Respiratory Pathogen, Treatment and Care
  Autor: Sandrock, Christian E.
  Tema: Treatment & Care
  Tipo de elemento: Publicación
  Fecha de actualización: 2008-01
  Descripción: Febrile respiratory illnesses with respiratory failure are one of the most common reasons for admission to the intensive care unit.
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  Clinical management and infection control of SARS: lessons learned.

  Etiquetas Clinical Care Guidelines, Coronavirus, Infection Prevention and Control, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, SARS
  Autor: Cheng, Vincent C. C., Jasper F. W. Chan, Kelvin K. W. To, and K. Y. Yuen.
  Tema: Infection Control
  Tipo de elemento: Publicación
  Fecha de actualización: 2013-11
  Descripción: The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003 was the first emergence of an important human pathogen in the 21st century.

• A family cluster of SARS-CoV-2 infection involving 11 patients in Nanjing, China

  Etiquetas 2019-nCoV, Airborne Transmission, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Droplet Transmission, Outbreaks, R-Res&Pub
  Autor: Huang, Rui, Juan Xia, Yuxin Chen, Chun Shan, and Chao Wu.
  Tema: Research
  Tipo de elemento: Publicación
  Fecha de actualización: 2020-02-28
  Descripción: Human infection caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has become a global health concern.

• Treating Ebola in eastern DRC

  Etiquetas Ebola, Outbreaks, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Treatment and Care, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Autor: Rojek, Amanda M., Shevin T. Jacob, and Jake Dunning.
  Tema: Treatment & Care
  Tipo de elemento: Publicación
  Fecha de actualización: 2020-03
  Descripción: Since the onset of the west Africa Ebola virus outbreak, there has been remarkable progress in efforts to provide patients with improved supportive care and access to experimental treatments.

• De-isolating COVID-19 Suspect Cases: A Continuing Challenge

  Etiquetas 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Infection Prevention and Control, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, R-IPC, R-Res&Pub, Treatment and Care
  Autor: Tay, Jun-Yang, Poh Lian Lim, Kalisvar Marimuthu, Sapna Pradip Sadarangani, Li Min Ling, Brenda Sze Peng Ang, Monica Chan, Yee-Sin Leo, and Shawn Vasoo.
  Tema: Infection Control
  Tipo de elemento: Publicación
  Fecha de actualización: 2020-02-26
  Descripción: To the Editor—As of 15 February 2020, Singapore had screened a total of 991 suspected cases for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), of which 72 cases tested positive, 812 cases tested negative, and the remaining 107 had pending results.

• Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China

  Etiquetas 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Epidemiology, R-Res&Pub
  Autor: Guan, Wei-jie, Zheng-yi Ni, Yu Hu, Wen-hua Liang, Chun-quan Ou, Jian-xing He, Lei Liu, Hong Shan, Chun-liang Lei, David S. C. Hui, Bin Du, Lan-juan Li, Guang Zeng, Kwok-Yung Yuen, Ru-chong Chen, Chun-li Tang, Tao Wang, Ping-yan Chen, Jie Xiang,…
  Tema: Research
  Tipo de elemento: Publicación
  Fecha de actualización: 2020-02-28
  Descripción: Since December 2019, when coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) emerged in Wuhan city and rapidly spread throughout China, data have been needed on the clinical characteristics of the affected patients.
  

• Game consumption and the 2019 novel coronavirus

  Etiquetas 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, R-Res&Pub, Zoonotic
  Autor: Li, Jie, Jun Li, Xiaoru Xie, Xiaomei Cai, Jian Huang, Xuemei Tian, and Hong Zhu.
  Tema: Research
  Tipo de elemento: Publicación
  Fecha de actualización: 2020-02-07
  Descripción: In December, 2019, the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infecting humans was first identified in Wuhan, China.
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  Different types of door-opening motions as contributing factors to containment failures in hospital isolation rooms

  Etiquetas Coronavirus, Flu, Infection Prevention and Control, Influenza, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, Occupational Exposure, Physical Infrastructure, R-PhIn, R-Res&Pub, SARS, Staff Support, Staffing
  Autor: 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.
  Tema: Infection Control
  Tipo de elemento: Publicación
  Fecha de actualización: 2013-06-24
  Descripción: 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.
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  Clinical and epidemiological predictors of transmission in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

  Etiquetas Airborne Transmission, Coronavirus, Diagnosis, Droplet Transmission, Epidemiology, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, R-Res&Pub, SARS
  Autor: Chen, Mark I. C., Angela L. P. Chow, Arul Earnest, Hoe Nam Leong, and Yee Sin Leo.
  Tema: Infection Control
  Tipo de elemento: Publicación
  Fecha de actualización: 2006
  Descripción: Only a minority of probable SARS cases caused transmission. We assess if any epidemiological or clinical factors in SARS index patients were associated with increased probability of transmission.