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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: Price-Haywood, Eboni G., Jeffrey Burton, Daniel Fort, and Leonardo Seoane.
Tema: Treatment & Care
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-06-25
Descripción: Many reports on coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) have highlighted age- and sex-related differences in health outcomes. More information is needed about racial and ethnic differences in outcomes from Covid-19. -
Autor: Borromeo Flinn, Jade, Jesse J. Benza, Lauren M. Sauer, Christopher Sulmonte, Noreen A. Hynes, and Brian T. Garibaldi.
Tema: Physical Infrastructure
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-06-17
Descripción: The biocontainment unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital is a specially designed, inactive high-level isolation unit designated to care for patients infected with high-consequence pathogens. The unit team designed a facility-specific readiness scale and…Example only: NETEC provides this item for reference purposes but does not endorse its content. Newer versions may be in place at the providing institution.
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Autor: Wilkason, Colby, Christopher Lee, Lauren M. Sauer, Jennifer Nuzzo, and Amanda McClelland.
Tema: Personnel Management
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-06
Descripción: The 2014-2016 West African Ebola epidemic was devastating in many respects, not least of which was the impact on healthcare systems and their health workforce. Healthcare workers—including physicians, clinical officers, nurses, midwives, and… -
Autor: Geleris, Joshua, Yifei Sun, Jonathan Platt, Jason Zucker, Matthew Baldwin, George Hripcsak, Angelena Labella, Daniel K. Manson, Christine Kubin, R. Graham Barr, Magdalena E. Sobieszczyk, and Neil W. Schluger.
Tema: Research
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-06-18
Descripción: Hydroxychloroquine has been widely administered to patients with Covid-19 without robust evidence supporting its use. -
Autor: Ellinghaus, David, Frauke Degenhardt, Luis Bujanda, Maria Buti, Agustín Albillos, Pietro Invernizzi, Javier Fernández, Daniele Prati, Guido Baselli, Rosanna Asselta, Marit M. Grimsrud, Chiara Milani, Fátima Aziz, Jan Kässens, Sandra May, Mareike…
Tema: Research
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-06-17
Descripción: There is considerable variation in disease behavior among patients infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). Genomewide association analysis may allow for… -
Autor: Xue, Mingshan, Peiyan Zheng, Xiqing Bian, Zhifeng Huang, Huimin Huang, Yifeng Zeng, Haisheng Hu, Xiaoqing Liu, Luqian Zhou, Baoqing Sun, Jian-lin Wu, and Nanshan Zhong.
Tema: Research
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-06
Descripción: This study aimed to determine the clinical significance of Krebs von den Lungen-6 (KL-6) in patients with COVID-19, so as to find a marker with high sensitivity, specificity and easy detection to evaluate the lung injury and inflammation of COVID-19.… -
Autor: Hubiche, Thomas, Florence Le Duff, Christine Chiaverini, Valérie Giordanengo, and Thierry Passeron.
Tema: Research
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-06-18
Descripción: We read with interest the Correspondence by Claudio Guarneri and colleagues suggesting that chilblain-like lesions could reveal asymptomatic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Several reports of cutaneous… -
Autor: Iversen, Patrick L., Christopher D. Kane, Xiankun Zeng, Rekha G. Panchal, Travis K. Warren, Sheli R. Radoshitzky, Jens H. Kuhn, Rajini R. Mudhasani, Christopher L. Cooper, Amy C. Shurtleff, Farooq Nasar, Melek M. E. Sunay, Allen J. Duplantier, Brett…
Tema: Research
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-06-18
Descripción: The PALM trial in the Democratic Republic of the Congo identified a statistically significant survival benefit for two monoclonal antibody-based therapeutics in the treatment of acute Ebola virus disease; however, substantial gaps remain in improving… -
Autor: Sardanelli, Francesco, Andrea Cozzi, Lorenzo Monfardini, Claudio Bnà, Riccardo Alessandro Foà, Angelo Spinazzola, Silvia Tresoldi, Maurizio Cariati, Francesco Secchi, and Simone Schiaffino.
Tema: Research
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-06-19
Descripción: Xavier Valette and colleagues reported a high (66%) prevalence of mediastinal lymphadenopathy in 15 patients with COVID-19 admitted to their intensive care unit (ICU), an approximately 11-fold discrepancy with systematic reviews reporting pooled… -
Autor: Pitzer, Virginia E., and Ted Cohen.
Tema: Research
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-06-17
Descripción: Studies of household members and close contacts of individuals infected with a communicable disease such as COVID-19 are a key source of information for infectious disease epidemiologists.
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