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- Title
Unexplained Respiratory Disease Outbreak Working Group Activities- Worldwide, March 2007-September2011.
- Authors
Cleslak, Paul R.; Britt, April S.; Hicks, Lauri; Conklin, Laura; Van Beneden, Chris; Garrison, Laurel E.; Winchell, Jonas; Schneider, Eileen; Erdman, Dean; Fry, Alicia; Jain, Seema; Uyeki, Tim; Finelli, Lyn; Lindstrom, Steve; Clark, Thomas A.; Tondella, Maria-Lucia; Wun-Ju Shieh; Zaki, Sherif; Fleming-Dutra, Katherine E.
- Abstract
The article summarizes the activities of the working group formed for the unexplained respiratory disease outbreak (URDO) by the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and prevention (CDC) during the period of March 2007 to September 2011. It mentions that 40 scientists from CDC were member of it having the objective to identify several reason of URDO. Investigators of URDO collected several data and conducted etiological studies representing the preliminary information of URDO. According to the data presented, out of 51 investigation report one recorded a pseudo outbreak due to contamination of clinical specimen.
- Subjects
UNITED States; TEAMS in the workplace; RESPIRATORY diseases; DISEASE outbreaks; CENTERS for Disease Control &; Prevention (U.S.); SCIENTISTS; ETIOLOGY of diseases; MICROBIAL contamination; INVESTIGATION reports; DIAGNOSTIC specimens; ACQUISITION of data
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2012, Vol 308, Issue 8, p754
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article