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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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  Upholding Family-Centered Care in the Face of High-Consequence Pathogens--Thinking Inside the Room--Reply

  Etiquetas Contact Transmission, Droplet Transmission, Infection Prevention and Control, Pediatrics, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, Treatment and Care
  Autor: Mehrotra, Preeti, Andi L. Shane, and Aaron M. Milstone.
  Tema: Research
  Tipo de elemento: Publicación
  Fecha de actualización: 2016-03
  Descripción: In Reply We appreciate the response by Curley and Meyer to our Viewpoint titled “Family-Centered Care and High-Consequence Pathogens: Thinking Outside the Room”1 and the continued dialogue regarding family-centered care and high-consequence…
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  Development of a Pediatric Ebola Predictive Score, Sierra Leone

  Etiquetas Diagnosis, Ebola, Epidemiology, Outbreaks, Pediatrics, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Autor: Fitzgerald F, Wing K, Naveed A, Gbessay M, Ross JCG, Checchi F, Youkee D, Jalloh MB, Baion DE, Mustapha A, Jah H, Lako S, Oza S, Boufkhed S, Feury R, Bielicki J, Williamson E, Gibb DM, Klein N, Sahr F, Yeung S.
  Tema: Research
  Tipo de elemento: Publicación
  Fecha de actualización: 2018-02
  Descripción: We compared children who were positive for Ebola virus disease (EVD) with those who were negative to derive a pediatric EVD predictor (PEP) score.
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  Being a Pediatrician in an Ebola Epidemic

  Etiquetas Ebola, Epidemic, Epidemiology, Pediatrics, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, R-T&C, Treatment and Care, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Autor: Vijay Aswani
  Tema: Treatment & Care
  Tipo de elemento: Publicación
  Fecha de actualización: 2016-01
  Descripción: Narrative of his work in Sierra Leone in January and February 2015.

• Cardiac MRI Findings Suggest Myocarditis in Severe Ebola Virus Disease

  Etiquetas R-Res&Pub
  Autor: Chertow DS, Childs RW, Arai AE, Davey RT Jr.
  Tema: Research
  Tipo de elemento: Publicación
  Fecha de actualización: 2017-06-05
  Descripción: In March, 2015, a 34 year-old previously healthy male healthcare worker was evacuated from Sierra Leone to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Research Center for the management of severe Ebola virus disease (EVD).

• Independent monitoring board recommends early termination of Ebola therapeutics trial in DRC because of favorable results with two of four candidates

  Etiquetas Ebola, R-Res&Pub, Therapeutics
  Autor: NIH
  Tema: Research
  Tipo de elemento: Hipervínculo
  Fecha de actualización: 2019-08-12
  Descripción: The Pamoja Tulinde Maisha (PALM [together save lives]) study is a randomized, controlled trial of four investigational agents (ZMapp, remdesivir, mAb114 and REGN-EB3) for the treatment of patients with Ebola virus disease. The study began on Nov. 20,…

• Ebola Virus Epidemiology and Evolution in Nigeria.

  Etiquetas Ebola, Outbreaks, R-Res&Pub, Virology
  Autor: Folarin OA, Ehichioya D, Schaffner SF, Winnicki SM, Wohl S, Eromon P, West KL, Gladden-Young A, Oyejide NE, Matranga CB, Deme AB, James A, Tomkins-Tinch C, Onyewurunwa K, Ladner JT, Palacios G, Nosamiefan I, Andersen KG, Omilabu S, Park DJ, Yozwiak…
  Tema: Research
  Tipo de elemento: Publicación
  Fecha de actualización: 2016-10-15
  Descripción: Containment limited the 2014 Nigerian Ebola virus (EBOV) disease outbreak to 20 reported cases and 8 fatalities. We present here clinical data and contact information for at least 19 case patients, and full-length EBOV genome sequences for 12 of the…
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  Genomic Analysis of Lassa Virus during an Increase in Cases in Nigeria in 2018

  Etiquetas Epidemiology, Lassa, Outbreaks, R-Res&Pub, Virology
  Autor: Katherine J. Siddle, Ph.D., Philomena Eromon, B.Sc., Kayla G. Barnes, Ph.D., Judith U. Oguzie, D.V.M., Samar Mehta, M.D., Ph.D., Ikponmwonsa Odia, M.Sc., Rickey Shah, A.L.M., Patrick Brehio, B.S., Sarah M. Winnicki, M.S., Christopher Iruolagbe,…
  Tema: Research
  Tipo de elemento: Publicación
  Fecha de actualización: 2018-11-01
  Descripción: In early 2018 Nigeria experienced an unprecedented increase in Lassa fever cases with widespread geographic distribution.

• Ebola therapies: an unconventionally calculated risk.

  Etiquetas Clinical Trial, Ebola, Outbreaks, R-Res&Pub, Therapeutics, Vaccine Study
  Autor: Fallah MP, Skrip LA.
  Tema: Research
  Tipo de elemento: Publicación
  Fecha de actualización: 2019-01-24
  Descripción: This article reviews the testing of Ebola therapies during the outbreak.

• Roots, Not Parachutes: Research Collaborations Combat Outbreaks

  Etiquetas Infection Prevention and Control, Outbreaks, Preparedness, R-EM, R-Res&Pub, Research, Research Design
  Autor: Nathan L. Yozwiak, Christian T. Happi, Donald S. Grant, John S. Schieffelin, Robert F. Garry, Pardis C. Sabeti, and Kristian G. Andersen, on behalf of the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium and the African Center of Excellence for Genomics of…
  Tema: Emergency Management
  Tipo de elemento: Publicación
  Fecha de actualización: 2016-06-30
  Descripción: Summary
  
  Recent infectious disease epidemics illustrate how health systems failures anywhere can create disease vulnerabilities everywhere. We must therefore prioritize investments in health care infrastructure in outbreak-prone regions of the…

• Medical countermeasures during the 2018 Ebola virus disease outbreak in the North Kivu and Ituri Provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a rapid genomic assessment

  Etiquetas Clinical Trial, Ebola, Outbreaks, R-Res&Pub, Virology
  Autor: Mbala-Kingebeni P, Aziza A, Di Paola N, Wiley MR, Makiala-Mandanda S, Caviness K, Pratt CB, Ladner JT, Kugelman JR, Prieto K, Chitty JA, Larson PA, Beitzel B, Ayouba A, Vidal N, Karhemere S, Diop M, Diagne MM, Faye M, Faye O, Aruna A, Nsio J, Mulangu…
  Tema: Research
  Tipo de elemento: Publicación
  Fecha de actualización: 2019-04-15
  Descripción: The real-time generation of information about pathogen genomes has become a vital goal for transmission analysis and characterisation in rapid outbreak responses. In response to the recently established genomic capacity in the Democratic Republic of…