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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2017

Sustainability of High-Level Isolation Capabilities among US Ebola Treatment Centers.

Jocelyn J Herstein, Paul D Biddinger, Shawn G Gibbs, Aurora B Le, Katelyn C Jelden, Angela L Hewlett, John J Lowe

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Jocelyn J Herstein
Paul D Biddinger
Shawn G Gibbs
Aurora B Le
Katelyn C Jelden
Angela L Hewlett
John J Lowe

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To identify barriers to maintaining and applying capabilities of US high-level isolation units (HLIUs) used during the Ebola virus disease outbreak, during 2016 we surveyed HLIUs. HLIUs identified sustainability challenges and reported the highly infectious diseases they would treat. HLIUs expended substantial resources in development but must strategize models of sustainability to maintain readiness.

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Civil DefenseEbolavirusHemorrhagic Fever, EbolaHospitals, IsolationHumansPublic HealthUnited Statescommunicable diseasesEbolaEbolavirusEbola virus diseasehospitalsisolationUnited Statesviruses

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PMID28518036
PMCPMC5443454

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