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Discover Background Data and Resources:
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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: Jing, Qin-Long, Ming-Jin Liu, Zhou-Bin Zhang, Li-Qun Fang, Jun Yuan, An-Ran Zhang, Natalie E. Dean, Lei Luo, Meng-Meng Ma, Ira Longini, Eben Kenah, Ying Lu, Yu Ma, Neda Jalali, Zhi-Cong Yang, and Yang Yang.
Tema: Research
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-06-17
Descripción: As of June 8, 2020, the global reported number of COVID-19 cases had reached more than 7 million with over 400 000 deaths. The household transmissibility of the causative pathogen, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), remains… -
Autor: MacIntyre, Chandini Raina.
Tema: Infection Control
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-06-16
Descripción: Amid the urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic response, the study by Adam Kucharski and colleagues in The Lancet Infectious Diseases reminds us that all available control measures should be used together to drive the effective reproduction number (Reff)… -
Autor: Kucharski, Adam J., Petra Klepac, Andrew J. K. Conlan, Stephen M. Kissler, Maria L. Tang, Hannah Fry, Julia R. Gog, W. John Edmunds, Jon C. Emery, Graham Medley, James D. Munday, Timothy W. Russell, Quentin J. Leclerc, Charlie Diamond, Simon R.…
Tema: Infection Control
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-06-16
Descripción: The isolation of symptomatic cases and tracing of contacts has been used as an early COVID-19 containment measure in many countries, with additional physical distancing measures also introduced as outbreaks have grown. To maintain control of… -
Autor: Tedder, Richard S., and Malcolm G. Semple.
Tema: Laboratory
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-06-15
Descripción: We read with considerable interest the Comment from Long Chen and colleagues about the potential use of convalescent plasma for the treatment of COVID-19. -
Autor: Cox, Rebecca J., Karl A. Brokstad, Florian Krammer, Nina Langeland, Bjørn Blomberg, Kanika Kuwelker, Sarah Lartey, Dagrun Waag Linchausen, Kristin G. I. Mohn, Francisco Gomez Real, Amit Bansal, Geir Bredholt, Anders Madsen, Therese Bredholt Onanygo,…
Tema: Research
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-06-15
Descripción: We read with interest the Article by Qifang Bi and colleagues, in which they reported a household secondary attack rate, as detected by repeated RT-PCR tests, of approximately 11%. We have found substantially higher attacks rates in western Norway… -
Autor: Tabata, Sakiko, Kazuo Imai, Shuichi Kawano, Mayu Ikeda, Tatsuya Kodama, Kazuyasu Miyoshi, Hirofumi Obinata, Satoshi Mimura, Tsutomu Kodera, Manabu Kitagaki, Michiya Sato, Satoshi Suzuki, Toshimitsu Ito, Yasuhide Uwabe, and Kaku Tamura.
Tema: Treatment & Care
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-06-12
Descripción: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is a global threat. Identification of markers for symptom onset and disease progression is a pressing issue. We described the clinical features of people infected on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship who were… -
Autor: Marshall, John C., Srinivas Murthy, Janet Diaz, Neil Adhikari, Derek C. Angus, Yaseen M. Arabi, Kenneth Baillie, Michael Bauer, Scott Berry, Bronagh Blackwood, Marc Bonten, Fernando Bozza, Frank Brunkhorst, Allen Cheng, Mike Clarke, Vu Quoc Dat,…
Tema: Research
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-06-12
Descripción: Clinical research is necessary for an effective response to an emerging infectious disease outbreak. However, research efforts are often hastily organised and done using various research tools, with the result that pooling data across studies is… -
Autor: Hung, Ivan Fan-Ngai, Vincent Chi-Chung Cheng, Xin Li, Anthony Raymond Tam, Derek Ling-Lung Hung, Kelvin Hei-Yeung Chiu, Cyril Chik-Yan Yip, Jian-Piao Cai, Deborah Tip-Yin Ho, Shuk-Ching Wong, Sally Sau-Man Leung, Man-Yee Chu, Milky Oi-Yan Tang,…
Tema: Research
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-06-12
Descripción: A cruise ship is a closed-off environment that simulates the basic functioning of a city in terms of living conditions and interpersonal interactions. Thus, the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which was quarantined because of an onboard outbreak of… -
Autor: Ooi, Eng Eong, and Jenny G. Low.
Tema: Research
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-06-12
Descripción: The pandemic spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), the cause of COVID-19, has placed lives and economies of many countries under unprecedented stress. Many countries have shut schools and workplaces and imposed… -
Autor: Stringhini, Silvia, Ania Wisniak, Giovanni Piumatti, Andrew S. Azman, Stephen A. Lauer, Hélène Baysson, David De Ridder, Dusan Petrovic, Stephanie Schrempft, Kailing Marcus, Sabine Yerly, Isabelle Arm Vernez, Olivia Keiser, Samia Hurst, Klara M.…
Tema: Research
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-06-11
Descripción: Assessing the burden of COVID-19 on the basis of medically attended case numbers is suboptimal given its reliance on testing strategy, changing case definitions, and disease presentation. Population-based serosurveys measuring anti-severe acute…
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