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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jeroen J. A. van Kampen, David A. M. C. van de Vijver, Pieter L. A. Fraaij, Bart L. Haagmans, Mart M. Lamers, Nisreen Okba, Johannes P. C. van den Akker, Henrik Endeman, Diederik A. M. P. J. Gommers, Jan J. Cornelissen, Rogier A. S. Hoek, Menno M. van der Eerden, Dennis A. Hesselink, Herold J. Metselaar, Annelies Verbon, Jurriaan E. M. de Steenwinkel, Georgina I. Aron, Eric C. M. van Gorp, Sander van Boheemen, Jolanda C. Voermans, Charles A. B. Boucher, Richard Molenkamp, Marion P. G. Koopmans, Corine Geurtsvankessel, Annemiek A. van der Eijk
Summary: The study found that the median duration of shedding infectious virus in COVID-19 patients is 8 days, dropping below 5% after 15.2 days post onset of symptoms. High viral loads are associated with infectious SARS-CoV-2 isolation, while high serum neutralizing antibody titres are associated with non-infectious SARS-CoV-2.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
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Surgery
Ilies Benotmane, Simone Risch, Cecile Doderer-Lang, Sophie Caillard, Samirad Fafi-Kremer
Summary: The study found that a significant proportion of kidney transplant recipients can shed viable SARS-CoV-2 for at least 3 weeks after being infected with COVID-19, which may favor the emergence of new variants. Based on these findings, it is recommended to extend the isolation of kidney transplant recipients with COVID-19 until negative SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR testing.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION
(2021)
Editorial Material
Dermatology
Esther E. Freeman, Cristina Galvan Casas, Sonya Prasad, Claire Fuller, Klint Peebles, Misha Rosenbach, Lindy Fox, Devon E. McMahon, Alexis Strahan, Janet Lubov, Geoffrey Chen, Cuong V. Nguyen, Allen McMillen, Henry W. Lim, Alexander J. Stratigos, Mark D. Kaufmann, George J. Hruza, Lars French
Summary: This article describes the declaration of the global monkeypox outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization. It also highlights the expansion of the existing dermatology registry by the American Academy of Dermatology and International League of Dermatological Societies to collect cases of monkeypox and other emerging infections and disseminate findings to healthcare workers and the medical community.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY
(2022)
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Medicine, General & Internal
Meri R. J. Varkila, Maria E. Montez-Rath, Joshua A. Salomon, Xue Yu, Geoffrey A. Block, Douglas K. Owens, Glenn M. Chertow, Julie Parsonnet, Shuchi Anand
Summary: The widespread use of at-home COVID-19 tests affects the determination of community COVID-19 incidence. A study found that wastewater metrics were associated with high case and hospitalization rates in the first quarter of 2022, but the association weakened in subsequent quarters, possibly due to underreporting, reduced testing, and the effect of vaccines and treatments. This study suggests using wastewater metrics to improve the assessment of community infection prevalence when conventional surveillance data is unreliable.
Review
Rheumatology
Bayram Farisogullari, Ana S. Pinto, Pedro M. Machado
Summary: This article reviews all reported cases of COVID-19-associated arthritis and proposes using the term "COVID-19-associated arthritis" to define the entire spectrum of new-onset arthritis believed to be related to SARS-CoV-2 infection. A total of 33 cases were identified from 31 articles, with the majority being adults with peripheral joint involvement. Most patients responded well to treatment and the disease was self-limiting. The exact mechanism through which SARS-CoV-2 may trigger arthritis is not fully understood, and robust epidemiological data supporting a causal relationship are still lacking.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Leon S. Robertson
Summary: The testing policy for COVID-19 has a significant impact on the spread of the virus, with testing only vulnerable populations, whether symptomatic or not, appearing to avoid spreading the virus. False confidence of reduced risk among those who test negative may have contributed to the spread in countries that allowed testing on demand or testing only those who claimed to have symptoms.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Review
Immunology
Qinzhi Yang, Fang Lin, Yanan Wang, Min Zeng, Mao Luo
Summary: Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in regulating the strong inflammatory response, immune dysfunction, and thrombosis induced by COVID-19 infection. Understanding the expression and function of lncRNAs can provide insights into the development of lncRNA-based methods for COVID-19 treatment.
FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY
(2021)
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Biology
Paul Z. Chen, Niklas Bobrovitz, Zahra A. Premji, Marion Koopmans, David N. Fisman, Frank X. Gu
Summary: Virological factors, especially in the lower respiratory tract, facilitate the pathogenesis of severe COVID-19; Disease severity, rather than sex or age, predicts SARS-CoV-2 kinetics; Lower respiratory tract viral load may more accurately prognosticate COVID-19 severity in patients.
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Engineering, Mechanical
Souvik Manik, Sabyasachi Pal, Manoj Mandal, Mangal Hazra
Summary: India, severely affected by the second wave of COVID-19, held assembly elections in March-May 2021. Using various epidemiological models, the study found that during the election period, all election-bound states showed a significant increase in the effective contact rate and effective reproduction number. The Election Commission's measures to restrict large campaign rallies and political activities in April 2021 led to a decrease in these parameters for some states. Comparisons with the rest of India revealed that the spread of the virus was notably higher in election-bound states.
NONLINEAR DYNAMICS
(2022)
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Immunology
Tal Brosh-Nissimov, Nadav Sorek, Michal Yeshayahu, Irena Zherebovich, Maria Elmaliach, Amos Cahan, Sharon Amit, Erela Rotlevi
Summary: A study of 103 adults found no evidence of increased oropharyngeal reactivation of herpesviruses one week after receiving the BNT162b2 vaccine. This suggests that vaccination does not lead to an increase in oropharyngeal shedding of herpesviruses.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Yumi Matsushita, Tetsuji Yokoyama, Kayoko Hayakawa, Nobuaki Matsunaga, Hiroshi Ohtsu, Sho Saito, Mari Terada, Setsuko Suzuki, Shinichiro Morioka, Satoshi Kutsuna, Tetsuya Mizoue, Hisao Hara, Akio Kimura, Norio Ohmagari
Summary: Former smoking, but not current smoking, was associated with increased risk of severe COVID-19 in both men and women, suggesting that smoking cessation may reduce the risk of severe COVID-19 by preventing smoking-related comorbidities.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2022)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Marte Kjollesdal, Karin Magnusson
Summary: This study aimed to assess the impact of occupational factors on the burden of COVID-19 among immigrants in Norway. The results showed that, although immigrants had a higher risk of COVID-19 in certain occupational groups, occupation itself was not the main driver of the high rates of COVID-19 among immigrants from Somalia, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Turkey.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
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Mathematics, Applied
Anuraj Singh, Preeti Deolia
Summary: In this paper, a modified SEIR epidemic model is proposed to analyze the transmission dynamics of COVID-19 virus incorporating shedding effect. The impact of pathogen concentration through shedding of the virus into the environment is investigated, and the significance of shedding parameters in decreasing the disease's impact is computed. The basic reproduction number (R-0) is calculated using the next-generation matrix method, and the stability conditions for the equilibrium points are established.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
(2023)
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Infectious Diseases
Stephan Narison, Stavros Maltezos
Summary: Through comparing results from three approaches, we conducted an analysis of the evolution of COVID-19 in Madagascar and introduced a new ratio R-I/T(c,d). We also compared the effective reproduction number from different methods and compared the results with some European and African countries.
INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
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Immunology
David W. Dick, Lauren Childs, Zhilan Feng, Jing Li, Gergely Roest, David L. Buckeridge, Nick H. Ogden, Jane M. Heffernan
Summary: COVID-19 seroprevalence in the Canadian population changes over time, and it is estimated that 60-80% of the population will have some immunity to COVID-19 by late Summer 2021. To reduce the spread and severity of COVID-19, it is necessary to increase vaccination uptake in the age group 12-29, and administer booster doses to the age group 50+.
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Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Rongrong Yang, Xien Gui, Hengning Ke, Yong Xiong, Shicheng Gao
JOURNAL OF VIRAL HEPATITIS
(2020)
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Surgery
Zibiao Zhong, Qiuyan Zhang, Haoyang Xia, Aiping Wang, Wenjin Liang, Wei Zhou, Lihua Zhou, Xiao Liu, Lingzhang Rao, Zhifeng Li, Zhiyong Peng, Pingzheng Mo, Yong Xiong, Shaojun Ye, Yanfeng Wang, Qifa Ye
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION
(2020)
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Immunology
Pingzheng Mo, Yuanyuan Xing, Yu Xiao, Liping Deng, Qiu Zhao, Hongling Wang, Yong Xiong, Zhenshun Cheng, Shicheng Gao, Ke Liang, Mingqi Luo, Tielong Chen, Shihui Song, Zhiyong Ma, Xiaoping Chen, Ruiying Zheng, Qian Cao, Fan Wang, Yongxi Zhang
Summary: This study aimed to clarify the characteristics of patients with refractory COVID-19, finding that these patients were older, more likely to be male, and had more underlying comorbid conditions. Patients with refractory disease required more aggressive treatments such as oxygen therapy and mechanical ventilation.
CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
(2021)
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Immunology
Fan Wang, Jiayan Nie, Haizhou Wang, Qiu Zhao, Yong Xiong, Liping Deng, Shihui Song, Zhiyong Ma, Pingzheng Mo, Yongxi Zhang
JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
(2020)
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Geriatrics & Gerontology
TieLong Chen, Zhe Dai, Pingzheng Mo, Xinyu Li, Zhiyong Ma, Shihui Song, Xiaoping Chen, Mingqi Luo, Ke Liang, Shicheng Gao, Yongxi Zhang, Liping Deng, Yong Xiong
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES A-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND MEDICAL SCIENCES
(2020)
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Pathology
Tian Sufang, Xiong Yong, Liu Huan, Niu Li, Guo Jianchun, Liao Meiyan, Xiao Shu-Yuan
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Oncology
Mengyuan Dai, Dianbo Liu, Miao Liu, Fuxiang Zhou, Guiling Li, Zhen Chen, Zhian Zhang, Hua You, Meng Wu, Qichao Zheng, Yong Xiong, Huihua Xiong, Chun Wang, Changchun Chen, Fei Xiong, Yan Zhang, Yaqin Peng, Siping Ge, Bo Zhen, Tingting Yu, Ling Wang, Hua Wang, Yu Liu, Yeshan Chen, Junhua Mei, Xiaojia Gao, Zhuyan Li, Lijuan Gan, Can He, Zhen Li, Yuying Shi, Yuwen Qi, Jing Yang, Daniel G. Tenen, Li Chai, Lorelei A. Mucci, Mauricio Santillana, Hongbing Cai
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Immunology
Tao Suo, Xinjin Liu, Jiangpeng Feng, Ming Guo, Wenjia Hu, Dong Guo, Hafiz Ullah, Yang Yang, Qiuhan Zhang, Xin Wang, Muhanmmad Sajid, Zhixiang Huang, Liping Deng, Tielong Chen, Fang Liu, Ke Xu, Yuan Liu, Qi Zhang, Yingle Liu, Yong Xiong, Guozhong Chen, Ke Lan, Yu Chen
EMERGING MICROBES & INFECTIONS
(2020)
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Immunology
Xinjin Liu, Jiangpeng Feng, Qiuhan Zhang, Dong Guo, Lu Zhang, Tao Suo, Wenjia Hu, Ming Guo, Xin Wang, Zhixiang Huang, Yong Xiong, Guozhong Chen, Yu Chen, Ke Lan
EMERGING MICROBES & INFECTIONS
(2020)
Editorial Material
Respiratory System
Yang Rongrong, Gui Xien, Zhang Yongxi, Xiong Yong
EXPERT REVIEW OF RESPIRATORY MEDICINE
(2020)
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Respiratory System
Yang Rongrong, Gui Xien, Zhang Yongxi, Xiong Yong
EXPERT REVIEW OF RESPIRATORY MEDICINE
(2020)
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Medicine, General & Internal
Ying-Hui Jin, Lin Cai, Zhen-Shun Cheng, Hong Cheng, Tong Deng, Yi-Pin Fan, Cheng Fang, Di Huang, Lu-Qi Huang, Qiao Huang, Yong Han, Bo Hu, Fen Hu, Bing-Hui Li, Yi-Rong Li, Ke Liang, Li-Kai Lin, Li-Sha Luo, Jing Ma, Lin-Lu Ma, Zhi-Yong Peng, Yun-Bao Pan, Zhen-Yu Pan, Xue-Qun Ren, Hui-Min Sun, Ying Wang, Yun-Yun Wang, Hong Weng, Chao-Jie Wei, Dong-Fang Wu, Jian Xia, Yong Xiong, Hai-Bo Xu, Xiao-Mei Yao, Yu-Feng Yuan, Tai-Sheng Ye, Xiao-Chun Zhang, Ying-Wen Zhang, Yin-Gao Zhang, Hua-Min Zhang, Yan Zhao, Ming-Juan Zhao, Hao Zi, Xian-Tao Zeng, Yong-Yan Wang, Xing-Huan Wang
MILITARY MEDICAL RESEARCH
(2020)
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Medicine, General & Internal
Yong Xiong, Shihui Song, Guangming Ye, Xinghuan Wang
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Immunology
Yong Xiong, Yuan Liu, Liu Cao, Dehe Wang, Ming Guo, Ao Jiang, Dong Guo, Wenjia Hu, Jiayi Yang, Zhidong Tang, Honglong Wu, Yongquan Lin, Meiyuan Zhang, Qi Zhang, Mang Shi, Yingle Liu, Yu Zhou, Ke Lan, Yu Chen
EMERGING MICROBES & INFECTIONS
(2020)
