Personal Protective Equipment for Filovirus Epidemics: A Call for Better Evidence

Personal protective equipment (PPE) is an important part of worker protection during filovirus outbreaks. The need to protect against a highly virulent fluid-borne pathogen in the tropical environment imposes a heat stress on the wearer that is itself a safety risk. No evidence supports the choice o...

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Autores principales: Sprecher, Armand G., Caluwaerts, An, Draper, Mike, Feldmann, Heinz, Frey, Clifford P., Funk, Renée H., Kobinger, Gary, Le Duc, James W., Spiropoulou, Christina, Williams, Warren Jon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2015
Materias:
Ebola and Marburg Viruses-Research, Outbreak Management, Epidemiology and Ecology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4564541/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25821225
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiv153
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author Sprecher, Armand G.
Caluwaerts, An
Draper, Mike
Feldmann, Heinz
Frey, Clifford P.
Funk, Renée H.
Kobinger, Gary
Le Duc, James W.
Spiropoulou, Christina
Williams, Warren Jon
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description Personal protective equipment (PPE) is an important part of worker protection during filovirus outbreaks. The need to protect against a highly virulent fluid-borne pathogen in the tropical environment imposes a heat stress on the wearer that is itself a safety risk. No evidence supports the choice of PPE employed in recent outbreaks, and standard testing procedures employed by the protective garment industry do not well simulate filovirus exposure. Further research is needed to determine the appropriate PPE for filoviruses and the heat stress that it imposes.
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spelling pubmed-45645412015-09-18 Personal Protective Equipment for Filovirus Epidemics: A Call for Better Evidence Sprecher, Armand G. Caluwaerts, An Draper, Mike Feldmann, Heinz Frey, Clifford P. Funk, Renée H. Kobinger, Gary Le Duc, James W. Spiropoulou, Christina Williams, Warren Jon J Infect Dis Ebola and Marburg Viruses-Research, Outbreak Management, Epidemiology and Ecology Personal protective equipment (PPE) is an important part of worker protection during filovirus outbreaks. The need to protect against a highly virulent fluid-borne pathogen in the tropical environment imposes a heat stress on the wearer that is itself a safety risk. No evidence supports the choice of PPE employed in recent outbreaks, and standard testing procedures employed by the protective garment industry do not well simulate filovirus exposure. Further research is needed to determine the appropriate PPE for filoviruses and the heat stress that it imposes. Oxford University Press 2015-10-01 2015-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4564541/ /pubmed/25821225 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiv153 Text en © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.
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Frey, Clifford P.
Funk, Renée H.
Kobinger, Gary
Le Duc, James W.
Spiropoulou, Christina
Williams, Warren Jon
Personal Protective Equipment for Filovirus Epidemics: A Call for Better Evidence
title Personal Protective Equipment for Filovirus Epidemics: A Call for Better Evidence
title_full Personal Protective Equipment for Filovirus Epidemics: A Call for Better Evidence
title_fullStr Personal Protective Equipment for Filovirus Epidemics: A Call for Better Evidence
title_full_unstemmed Personal Protective Equipment for Filovirus Epidemics: A Call for Better Evidence
title_short Personal Protective Equipment for Filovirus Epidemics: A Call for Better Evidence
title_sort personal protective equipment for filovirus epidemics: a call for better evidence
topic Ebola and Marburg Viruses-Research, Outbreak Management, Epidemiology and Ecology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4564541/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25821225
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiv153
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