The Role of High-Level Isolation Units in Response to High-Consequence and Emerging Infectious Diseases: Experience...

Michaela Niebank¹, Stefan O Brockmann¹, Torsten Feldt¹+10

• ¹Michaela Niebank, MD, is Head, Clinical Management and Infection Control, and Head, STAKOB office; and Agata Mikolajewska, MD, is a Staff Member and Coordinator, STAKOB office; both at the Center for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany. Stefan O. Brockmann, MD, is Head, Landesgesundheitsamt Referat 73, Ministerium für Soziales, Gesundheit und Integration Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany. Torsten Feldt, MD, DTM, is an Infectious Disease Physician, Professor, and Head, Tropical Medicine Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Düsseldorf University Hospital, and Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany. Björn-Erik Ole Jensen, MD, PD, DTM, is Coordinator, High-Level Isolation Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Düsseldorf University Hospital, and Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany. Annette Jurke, PD, MSc, is Speaker, STAKOB, and Head; and Jennifer Schauer, PhD, is a Staff Member; both in the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Section, NRW Centre for Health, Bochum, Germany. Katja Rothfuss, MD, is Coordinator High-Level Isolation Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany. Stefan Schmiedel, MD, PhD, DTMPH, is a Consultant, Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine, and Coordinator, High Level Isolation Unit, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany. Miriam Stegemann, MD, DTMH, is Head, Infectiology, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Head of Antibiotic Stewardship, Department of Infectious Diseases and Respiratory Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Peter Tinnemann, MD, PD, MPH, is Head, Gesundheitsamt Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Alexander Uhrig, MD, is Medical Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit/High-level Isolation Unit, Department of Infectious Diseases and Respiratory Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Timo Wolf, MD, PD, DTM, is Speaker, STAKOB, and Head, High-level Isolation Unit, Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, University Hospital, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.