TY - JOUR AU - Herstein, Jocelyn AU - Biddinger, Paul AU - Gibbs, Shawn AU - Le, Aurora AU - Jelden, Katelyn AU - Hewlett, Angela AU - Lowe, John T1 - Sustainability of High-Level Isolation Capabilities among US Ebola Treatment Centers T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2017 VL - 23 IS - 6 SP - 965 SN - 1080-6059 AB - 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. KW - Ebolavirus KW - Ebola virus disease KW - viruses KW - communicable diseases KW - hospitals KW - isolation KW - United States KW - Ebola DO - 10.3201/eid2306.170062 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/6/17-0062_article ER - End of Reference