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KMID : 1120220200110050280
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Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives
2020 Volume.11 No. 5 p.280 ~ p.285
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2019 Tabletop Exercise for Laboratory Diagnosis and Analyses of Unknown Disease Outbreaks by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Kim Il-Hwan
Jang Jun-Hyeong
Jo Su-Kyoung
No Jin-Sun
Seo Seung-Hee
Kim Jun-Young
Jung Sang-Oun
Kim Jeong-Min
Lee Sang-Eun
Park Hye-Kyung
Kim Eun-Jin
Jeon Jun-Ho
Choi Myung-Min
Ryu Bo-Yeong
Jang Yoon-Suk
Kim Hwa-Mi
Lee Jin
Shin Seung-Hwan
Kim Hee-Kyoung
Kim Eun-Kyoung
Park Ye-Eun
Yoo Cheon-Kwon
Lee Sang-Won
Han Myung-Guk
Rhie Gi-Eun
Kang Byung-Hak
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Abstract
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Objectives: The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published “A Guideline for Unknown Disease Outbreaks (UDO).” The aim of this report was to introduce tabletop exercises (TTX) to prepare for UDO in the future.
Methods: The UDO Laboratory Analyses Task Force in Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in April 2018, assigned unknown diseases into 5 syndromes, designed an algorithm for diagnosis, and made a panel list for diagnosis by exclusion. Using the guidelines and laboratory analyses for UDO, TTX were introduced.
Results: Since September 9th, 2018, the UDO Laboratory Analyses Task Force has been preparing TTX based on a scenario of an outbreak caused by a novel coronavirus. In December 2019, through TTX, individual missions, epidemiological investigations, sample treatments, diagnosis by exclusions, and next generation sequencing analysis were discussed, and a novel coronavirus was identified as the causal pathogen.
Conclusion: Guideline and laboratory analyses for UDO successfully applied in TTX. Conclusions drawn from TTX could be applied effectively in the analyses for the initial response to COVID-19, an ongoing epidemic of 2019 ? 2020. Therefore, TTX should continuously be conducted for the response and preparation against UDO.
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KEYWORD
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CDC, COVID-19, disease outbreaks
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