The survival of B cells is compromised in kidney disease by Doureradjou Peroumal, Chetan V. Jawale, Wonseok Choi, Hossein Rahimi, Danielle Antos, De-dong Li, Shuxia Wang, Godhev K. Manakkat Vijay, Isha Mehta, Raymond West, Muthusamy Thangaraju, Thomas D. Nolin, Jishnu Das, John F. Alcorn, Partha S. Biswas

“…Abstract Antibody-mediated protection against pathogens is crucial to a healthy life. However, the recent SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has shown that pre-existing comorbid conditions including kidney disease account for compromised humoral immunity to infections. …”
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Exploring Breastfeeding Mothers’ and Lactation Consultants’ Experiences of Lactation Consultancy Throughout the Restrictions Put in Place Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic [version 2; p... by Anne Matthews, Anna Connolly

“…Results Five key themes were identified: ‘Lack of Support’, ‘Adapting to COVID-19 Restrictions’, Emotional Response to COVID-19 and Restrictions’, Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 as a Barrier to and Facilitator of Support’ and Inconsistency of Lactation Support Across Ireland’. …”
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Severe invasive streptococcal infection in a patient with COVID-19: A case report by Yuki Matsuura, Mone Murashita, Takayoshi Oyasu, Akira Kodate, Yoshihiro Sadamoto, Akio Endo, Hisako Sageshima, Takumi Tsuchida

“…This case suggests the possibility of immunosuppression due to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. The patient had no history of immunodeficiency, and COVID-19 may have contributed to the poor outcome. …”
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Long-term Air Pollution Exposure Impact on COVID-19 Morbidity in China by Yihan Wu, Qingming Zhan, Qunshan Zhao

“…Abstract Although previous studies have proved the association between air pollution and respiratory viral infection, given the relatively short history of human infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the linkage between long-term air pollution exposure and the morbidity of 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pneumonia remains poorly understood. …”
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Electrochemical Biosensors Designed with Coordination Compounds: Recent Advancements and Future Perspectives by Abhay Nanda Srivastva, Kriti Milan, Netra Pal Singh, Dharm Veer Singh, Manish Kumar, Vishal Chaudhary, Samiksha Dabas

“…Starting with detection of oxygen, glucose, and urea to now detecting pathogens like SARS-CoV-2, EC-sensors are gaining attention across many fields. …”
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Efficiency of Automated Viral RNA Purification for Pediatric Studies of Dengue and Zika in Hyperendemic Areas by Sandra L. Delgado, Piedad M. Perilla, Doris M. Salgado, María Clemencia Rojas, Carlos F. Narváez

“…The isolation of nucleic acids is a critical and limiting step for molecular assays, which prompted the arrival in Colombia of automated purification instruments during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The local application of this technology in the study of tropical diseases, such as dengue and zika, is beginning to be tested. …”
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Neuropsychiatric and Physical Manifestations of Post-Covid-19 Syndrome: Insights into Physical Activity and Biomarkers in the Moroccan Population by Youssef NADIR, Habiba NECHCHADI, Hicham ESSELMANI, Mohamed MERZOUKI, Karim ARIFI

“… Several patients experience persistent symptoms that last for more than three months following the acute phase of SARS-CoV-2 infection. These symptoms, which cannot be attributed to any other diagnosis, are collectively referred to as post-Covid-19 syndrome. …”
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Mucosal immune response in biology, disease prevention and treatment by Xiaoxue Zhou, Yuchen Wu, Zhipeng Zhu, Chu Lu, Chunwu Zhang, Linghui Zeng, Feng Xie, Long Zhang, Fangfang Zhou

“…The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has underscored the critical role of mucosal immunity in disease prevention and treatment. …”
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Correlation between Chest CT Severity Scores and the Clinical Parameters of Adult Patients with COVID-19 Pneumonia by Ghufran Aref Saeed, Waqar Gaba, Asad Shah, Abeer Ahmed Al Helali, Emadullah Raidullah, Ameirah Bader Al Ali, Mohammed Elghazali, Deena Yousef Ahmed, Shaikha Ghanam Al Kaabi, Safaa Almazrouei

“…(devised for assessment of ARDS in patients with SARS in 2005). Materials and Methods. Data of consecutive symptomatic patients who were suspected to have COVID-19 infection and presented to our hospital were collected from March to April 2020. …”
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Acciones de vigilancia y control ante la notificación de casos confirmados a la COVID-19. Aguada de Pasajeros, Cienfuegos. Cuba by Alain Morejón Giraldoni, Enis Rafael Rivera Rosa, Miguel Ángel Díaz Mesa, Yanet Pérez Cruz, Georgina Morales Bolaño, Yamila Sardiñas Méndez, Mayleni Olano Rivera, Juan Carlos Sáchez Mena

“…Se realizaron 50 pruebas de reacción en cadena de la polimerasa, en tiempo real, de las cuales solo dos resultaron positivas a SARS-CoV-2. Se tomaron todas las medidas correspondientes a un control de foco para esta enfermedad y se potenciaron las acciones de vigilancia y control en la comunidad al realizarse 200 test rápidos IgM/IgG para detectar presencia de circulación viral. …”
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Service quality in decentralized community-based Covid-19 antigen rapid diagnostic testing programmes in the Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria. by Ekerette Udoh, Osayamen Okonkwo, Godpower Omoregie, Victoria Ura-Akubo, Nnamdi Anosike, Joshua Folorunsho, Evelyn Orakwelu, John Bimba, Karin Hatzold, Elizabeth L Corbett, Emily Nightingale, Yasmin Dunkley

“…<h4>Methods</h4>Between September 2022 and February 2023 community healthcare facilities (48 Community Pharmacies, 21 Patent Medicine Stores, 79 Primary Health Centers) were evaluated using Stepwise Process for Improving the Quality of SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Rapid Diagnostic Testing (SPI-RT) Checklist, tailored to the local implementation context. …”
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Complicaciones de pacientes con la COVID-19 y su relación con la evolución y la letalidad by Niger Guzmán Pérez, Lianne Oliva Corujo, Jacno Erik Ferrer Castro, Julio Serra Rodríguez

“…Introducción: La infección por el virus SARS-CoV-2 se ha convertido en una pandemia que ha ocasionado gran número de complicaciones, con evolución fatal en muchos casos. …”
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Dynamic transmission modeling of COVID-19 to support decision-making in Brazil: A scoping review in the pre-vaccine era. by Gabriel Berg de Almeida, Lorena Mendes Simon, Ângela Maria Bagattini, Michelle Quarti Machado da Rosa, Marcelo Eduardo Borges, José Alexandre Felizola Diniz Filho, Ricardo de Souza Kuchenbecker, Roberto André Kraenkel, Cláudia Pio Ferreira, Suzi Alves Camey, Carlos Magno Castelo Branco Fortaleza, Cristiana Maria Toscano

“…Brazil was one of the countries most affected during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, in a pre-vaccine era, and mathematical and statistical models were used in decision-making and public policies to mitigate and suppress SARS-CoV-2 dispersion. In this article, we intend to overview the modeling for COVID-19 in Brazil, focusing on the first 18 months of the pandemic. …”
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Relationship between Metabolic Syndrome Components and COVID-19 Disease Severity in Hospitalized Patients: A Pilot Study by Hande Erman, Banu Boyuk, Meltem Sertbas, Ali Ozdemir

“…The study population consisted of inpatients who tested positive by the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for SARS-CoV-2. Patients with critical COVID-19 disease on admission were excluded. …”
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How much does government’s short-term response matter for explaining cross-country variation in COVID-19 infection outcomes? A regression-based relative importance analysis of 84 c... by Gordon G Liu, Junjian Yi, Hanmo Yang, Xiaoyun Peng

“…COVID-19 is more prevalent in countries that are more individual-oriented or with a higher gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, while a country’s government expenditure on health as a proportion of GDP and median age are negatively associated with the infection outcome. The SARS-CoV-2 lifecycle and the impacts of other unobserved factors together explain more than half of the variation in the prevalence of COVID-19 across countries. …”
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Protein-ligand binding affinity prediction using multi-instance learning with docking structures by Hyojin Kim, Heesung Shim, Aditya Ranganath, Stewart He, Garrett Stevenson, Jonathan E. Allen

“…Our proposed method employs multi-instance learning with an attention network to predict binding affinity from a collection of docking poses.ResultsWe validate our method using multiple datasets, including PDBbind and compounds targeting the main protease of SARS-CoV-2. The results demonstrate that our method leveraging docking poses is competitive with other state-of-the-art inference models that depend on co-crystal structures.DiscussionThis method offers binding affinity prediction without requiring co-crystal structures, thereby increasing its applicability to protein targets lacking such data.…”
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In-silico screening and analysis of missense SNPs in human CYP3A4/5 affecting drug-enzyme interactions of FDA-approved COVID-19 antiviral drugs by Amro A. Abdelazim, Mohamad Maged, Ahmed I. Abdelmaksoud, Sameh E. Hassanein

“…CYP3A4/5 enzymes are involved in metabolizing drugs, notably antivirals against SARS-CoV-2. In this work, we computationally investigated antiviral-enzyme interactions of CYP3A4/5 genetic variants. …”
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Limitations of temporal (forehead) temperature readings as a screening method for covid-19 by Luis Fernando Aragón-Vargas

“…Multiple public-health strategies have been attempted in different regions of the world as authorities try to control spread of the disease, while the SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for the pandemic proves to be extremely contagious. …”
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Inter-laboratory Comparison between Particle and Bacterial Filtration Efficiencies of Medical Face Masks in the COVID-19 Context by Axel Fouqueau, Jérémie Pourchez, Lara Leclerc, Aurélien Peyron, Yoann Montigaud, Paul Verhoeven, Tatiana Macé, Alexandre Bescond, Dominique Thomas, Augustin Charvet, Mathieu Ghijselings, Pauline Hars, Franck Polyn, François Gaie-Levrel

“…Abstract Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission lead to the recommendation of mask wearing during the pandemic COVID-19. …”
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Francesco Federico Falco, el médico italiano que luchó por la independencia de Cuba by Jorge Eduardo Abreu Ugarte

“…La participación de médicos cubanos junto a colegas italianos en el enfrentamiento a la actual pandemia de la COVID-19, causada por el nuevo coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, recuerda al doctor italiano Francesco Federico Falco, que se incorporó como médico al Ejército Libertador, para luchar junto a los cubanos contra el colonialismo español en la postrimería del siglo XIX. …”
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