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Consequences of Pathogen Lists: Why Some Diseases May Continue to Plague Us

The current strategy used by many funding agencies for determining how money is spent on research to help prevent infectious disease outbreaks is based on pathogen-specific priority lists. Listing disease threats provides focus for business and research planning conducive to specific goals of develo...

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Autores principales: Brett-Major, David M., Racine, Trina, Kobinger, Gary P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6493960/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30652662
http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.18-0801
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description The current strategy used by many funding agencies for determining how money is spent on research to help prevent infectious disease outbreaks is based on pathogen-specific priority lists. Listing disease threats provides focus for business and research planning conducive to specific goals of developing a drug, or a vaccine, or other particular product. But, this singular type of focus has consequences. This perspective explores the consequences of lists, and describes how parallel programming independent of disease lists that address what we need to do to prevent and mitigate emerging disease risks may provide benefits out of reach of a singular focus on what products we need to have.
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spelling pubmed-64939602019-05-03 Consequences of Pathogen Lists: Why Some Diseases May Continue to Plague Us Brett-Major, David M. Racine, Trina Kobinger, Gary P. Am J Trop Med Hyg Perspective Pieces The current strategy used by many funding agencies for determining how money is spent on research to help prevent infectious disease outbreaks is based on pathogen-specific priority lists. Listing disease threats provides focus for business and research planning conducive to specific goals of developing a drug, or a vaccine, or other particular product. But, this singular type of focus has consequences. This perspective explores the consequences of lists, and describes how parallel programming independent of disease lists that address what we need to do to prevent and mitigate emerging disease risks may provide benefits out of reach of a singular focus on what products we need to have. The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2019-05 2019-01-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6493960/ /pubmed/30652662 http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.18-0801 Text en © The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6493960/
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