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Get introduced to NETEC through the interactive timeline of special pathogens below.* This timeline describes some significant special pathogen events in recent history.
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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 .
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This NETEC Repository helps to provide training and educational resources to prepare for future special pathogen events.
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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:
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Collection Resources
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Autor: Lindsley, William G., Jeffrey S. Reynolds, Jonathan V. Szalajda, John D. Noti, and Donald H. Beezhold.
Tema: Research
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2013
Descripción: Aerosol particles expelled during human coughs are a potential pathway for infectious disease transmission. However, the importance of airborne transmission is unclear for many diseases. -
Autor: Lindsley, William G., Terri A. Pearce, Judith B. Hudnall, Kristina A. Davis, Stephen M. Davis, Melanie A. Fisher, Rashida Khakoo, Jan E. Palmer, Karen E. Clark, Ismail Celik, Christopher C. Coffey, Francoise M. Blachere, and Donald H. Beezhold.
Tema: Research
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2012
Descripción: The question of whether influenza is transmitted to a significant degree by aerosols remains controversial, in part, because little is known about the quantity and size of potentially infectious airborne particles produced by people with influenza. -
Autor: Lindsley, William G., John D. Noti, Francoise M. Blachere, Robert E. Thewlis, Stephen B. Martin, Sreekumar Othumpangat, Bahar Noorbakhsh, William T. Goldsmith, Abhishek Vishnu, Jan E. Palmer, Karen E. Clark, and Donald H. Beezhold.
Tema: Research
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2015
Descripción: Patients with influenza release aerosol particles containing the virus into their environment. -
Autor: Lindsley, William G., William P. King, Robert E. Thewlis, Jeffrey S. Reynolds, Kedar Panday, Gang Cao, and Jonathan V. Szalajda.
Tema: Research
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2012
Descripción: Few studies have quantified the dispersion of potentially infectious bioaerosols produced by patients in the health care environment and the exposure of health care workers to these particles. -
Autor: Lindsley, William G., Francoise M. Blachere, Robert E. Thewlis, Abhishek Vishnu, Kristina A. Davis, Gang Cao, Jan E. Palmer, Karen E. Clark, Melanie A. Fisher, Rashida Khakoo, and Donald H. Beezhold.
Tema: Research
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2010-11-30
Descripción: Influenza is thought to be communicated from person to person by multiple pathways. However, the relative importance of different routes of influenza transmission is unclear. -
Autor: Lindsley, William G., Francoise M. Blachere, Kristina A. Davis, Terri A. Pearce, Melanie A. Fisher, Rashida Khakoo, Stephen M. Davis, Mark E. Rogers, Robert E. Thewlis, Jose A. Posada, John B. Redrow, Ismail B. Celik, Bean T. Chen, and Donald H.…
Tema: Research
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2010-03-01
Descripción: Considerable controversy exists with regard to whether influenza virus and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are spread by the inhalation of infectious airborne particles and about the importance of this route, compared with droplet or contact… -
Autor: Lindsley, William G., Francoise M. Blachere, Donald H. Beezhold, Robert E. Thewlis, Bahar Noorbakhsh, Sreekumar Othumpangat, William T. Goldsmith, Cynthia M. McMillen, Michael E. Andrew, Carmen N. Burrell, and John D. Noti.
Tema: Research
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2016-09
Descripción: To prepare for a possible influenza pandemic, a better understanding of the potential for the airborne transmission of influenza from person to person is needed. -
Autor: Leung, Nancy H. L., Jie Zhou, Daniel K. W. Chu, Han Yu, William G. Lindsley, Donald H. Beezhold, Hui-Ling Yen, Yuguo Li, Wing-Hong Seto, Joseph S. M. Peiris, and Benjamin J. Cowling.
Tema: Research
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2016-02-05
Descripción: The potential for human influenza viruses to spread through fine particle aerosols remains controversial. -
Autor: Fisher, Edward M., John D. Noti, William G. Lindsley, Francoise M. Blachere, and Ronald E. Shaffer.
Tema: Infection Control
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2014-08
Descripción: Facemasks are part of the hierarchy of interventions used to reduce the transmission of respiratory pathogens by providing a barrier. -
Autor: Cummings, Kristin J., Stephen B. Martin, Jr., William G. Lindsley, Sreekumar Othumpangat, Francoise M. Blachere, John D. Noti, Donald H. Beezhold, Nasira Roidad, John E. Parker, and David N. Weissman.
Tema: Infection Control
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2014-08-01
Descripción: We read with interest the article by Bischoff et al, in which they describe detection of influenza virus in aerosols around hospitalized patients with influenza virus infection who were receiving routine care.
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