The Role of Vaccination in the Control of SARS by Julijana Gjorgjieva, Kelly Smith, Gerardo Chowell, Fabio Sánchez, Jessica Snyder, Carlos Castillo-Chavez

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Critical role of nosocomial transmission in the Toronto SARS outbreak by Glenn Webb, Martin J. Blaser, Huaiping Zhu, Sten Ardal, Jianhong Wu

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The utility of preemptive mass influenza vaccination in controlling a SARS outbreak during flu season by Qingling Zeng, Kamran Khan, Jianhong Wu, Huaiping Zhu

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From the guest editors by Abba Gumel, James Watmough

“…In September of 2003, on the tail of the outbreak of Severe AcuteRespiratory Syndrome (SARS) in the Greater Toronto Area, MITACS(www.mitacs.ca), one of Canada's Networks of Centres ofExcellence, teamed up with Health Canada in funding a workshopentitled the MITACS-PIMS-Health Canada meeting on SARS atthe magnificent Banff International Research Station (BIRS) . …”
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Liver damage during infections with coronavirus by Iqbal Hanash Dhefer

“…Previous research revealed that liver damage is prevalent in patients infected with the additional widely zoonotic coronaviruses, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and has been reviewed in relation to the severity of MERS, SARS, and COVID-19 diseases. …”
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Learning from Mistakes by LE Nicolle

“…In the present issue of the Journal, Patrick and his colleagues (pages 330-336) describe an episode in the summer of 2003, immediately following the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic, when an outbreak of respiratory illness occurred in a long-term care facility in Vancouver, and was initially reported by the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) to be SARS. …”
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Transmission Electron Microscopy Studies of Cellular Responses to Entry of Virions: One Kind of Natural Nanobiomaterial by Zheng Liu, Shuyu Liu, Jinming Cui, Yurong Tan, Jian He, Jingqiang Zhang

“…For this paper, we chose Bombyx mori cypovirus 1 (BmCPV-1) interactions with midgut cells from silkworm, and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) associated coronavirus interactions with Vero E6 cells, as examples to demonstrate the response of eukaryotic cells to two different types of virus from our previous studies. …”
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Novo coronavírus, velhas desigualdades: distribuição dos casos, óbitos e letalidade por SRAG decorrentes da covid-19 na Cidade do Recife by Jan Bitoun, Cristiana Coutinho Duarte, Anselmo César Vasconcelos Bezerra, Ana Cristina de Almeida Fernandes, Lucas Siqueira Santos

“…For the purpose of this study, data from the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) were used, as they were the only ones available on the intra-urban scale. …”
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COVID-19: Gastrointestinal Manifestations and Complications by Angel Yun-Kuan Thye, Priyia Pusparajah, Loh Teng-Hern Tan, Jodi Woan-Fei Law, Vengadesh Letchumanan, Learn-Han Lee

“…This review aims to study the prevalence of some of the gastrointestinal manifestations following COVID-19 infection and findings of positive SARS-CoV-2 RNA in stool specimens while making parallels to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) infection. …”
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Sensitivity and uncertainty analyses for a SARS model with time-varying inputs and outputs by Robert G. McLeod, John F. Brewster, Abba B. Gumel, Dean A. Slonowsky

“…This paper presents a statistical study of a deterministic model for the transmissiondynamics and control of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). The effect of themodel parameters on the dynamics of the disease is analyzed using sensitivity anduncertainty analyses. …”
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An sveir model for assessing potential impact of an imperfect anti-SARS vaccine by Abba B. Gumel, C. Connell McCluskey, James Watmough

“…The control of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), a fatalcontagious viral disease that spread to over 32 countries in 2003,was based on quarantine of latently infected individuals and isolation ofindividuals with clinical symptoms of SARS. …”
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Post-COVID effect on heart after recovery based on hybrid EfficientNet-DBN with multilevel classification using ECG images by Mohammed Abdul Basith Ali Khan, Edara Sreenivasa Reddy

“…The highly contagious and dangerous virus known as COVID-19 is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which is disseminated worldwide. …”
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A Review on Expression, Pathological Roles, and Inhibition of TMPRSS2, the Serine Protease Responsible for SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Activation by Jyotirmoy Sarker, Pritha Das, Sabarni Sarker, Apurba Kumar Roy, A. Z. M. Ruhul Momen

“…Recent studies have shown that transmembrane serine protease 2 (TMPRSS2), a protease known for similar role in previous coronavirus infections, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), is responsible for the proteolytic cleavage of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, enabling host cell fusion of the virus. …”
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Molecular docking reveals fibrinogen binding sites on SARS-CoV-2 spike protein: A potential mechanism for COVID-19-related coagulation by Onur Ozturk, Evren Kilinc, Batuhan Gorkem Irez, Emel Timucin

“…The occurrence of thromboinflammation has likewise been corroborated in cases of both Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). …”
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Outbreak prediction of covid-19 in most susceptible countries by D. Yadav, H. Maheshwari, U. Chandra

“…The full name of the coronavirus is severe acute respiratory syndrome SARS-CoV. It spread on humans as well as animals and infected more than 183 countries with 2959927 confirm cases and 202733 deaths till 28 April 2020. 84 days data is used to predict confirmed and death cases for the next 10 days by using prophet and daily average based algorithm. …”
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FLUed: A Novel Four-Layer Model for Simulating Epidemic Dynamics and Assessing Intervention Policies by Chung-Yuan Huang, Tzai-Hung Wen, Yu-Shiuan Tsai

“…From the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic, to the 2009 swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) pandemic, to the projected highly pathogenic avian influenza A event, emerging infectious diseases highlight the importance of computational epidemiology to assess potential intervention policies. …”
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A Real-Time PCR Assay for Bat SARS-Like Coronavirus Detection and Its Application to Italian Greater Horseshoe Bat Faecal Sample Surveys by Andrea Balboni, Laura Gallina, Alessandra Palladini, Santino Prosperi, Mara Battilani

“…Bats are source of coronaviruses closely related to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus. Numerous studies have been carried out to identify new bat viruses related to SARS-coronavirus (bat-SARS-like CoVs) using a reverse-transcribed-polymerase chain reaction assay. …”
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Effect of Weather on COVID-19 Transmission and Mortality in Lagos, Nigeria by Christian Ogaugwu, Hammed Mogaji, Euphemia Ogaugwu, Uchechukwu Nebo, Hilary Okoh, Stanley Agbo, Andrew Agbon

“…Evidence exists on the influence of temperature and humidity on the transmission of related infectious respiratory diseases, such as influenza and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). This study therefore explored the effects of daily temperature and humidity on COVID-19 transmission and mortality in Lagos state, the epicenter of COVID-19 in Nigeria. …”
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Alternative splicing expands the antiviral IFITM repertoire in Chinese rufous horseshoe bats. by Nelly S C Mak, Jingyan Liu, Dan Zhang, Jordan Taylor, Xiaomeng Li, Kazi Rahman, Feiyu Chen, Siddhartha A K Datta, Kin Kui Lai, Zhengli Shi, Nigel Temperton, Aaron T Irving, Alex A Compton, Richard D Sloan

“…Here, we identified an IFITM gene in Chinese rufous horseshoe bat, a natural host of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-related coronaviruses, that is alternatively spliced to produce two IFITM isoforms in native cells as shown by transcriptomics. …”
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Atomized Neutrophil Membrane-coated MOF Nanoparticles for Direct Delivery of Dexamethasone for Severe Pneumonia by Yixiao Yang, Lizhen Yan, Han Zhang, Chuanguang Xiao, Kai Wang

“…Background: Dexamethasone has proven life-saving in severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and COVID-19 cases. However, its systemic administration is accompanied by serious side effects. …”
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