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Negative predictive value of procalcitonin to rule out bacterial respiratory co-infection in critical covid-19 patients
IntrodutionThe ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 has overwhelmed healthcare systems and continues ...
Risk of Intensive Care Unit admission or mortality in patients hospitalised for COVID-19 during the first two waves: an Italian cohort study.
KEYWORDSDear Editors,in the article “First and second COVID-19 waves in Japan: A comparison of disease severity and charac...
Emergence of H3N8 avian influenza viruses possessing tri-basic hemagglutinin cleavage sites in China
Recently, the first human case of acute respiratory distress syndrome caused by the H3N8 subtype avian influenza vir...
Spike-mediated ACE2 down-regulation involved in the pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 infection
IntroductionCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-C...
Immunogenicity of a third dose of inactivated COVID-19 vaccine in people living with HIV-1, HBV, and tuberculosis during the Omicron variant epidemic: A cross-sectional study
KeywordsTo the editorRecent Syed's study reported that the effectiveness of one dose of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine peaked a...
Sotrovimab to prevent severe COVID-19 in high-risk patients infected with Omicron BA.2
In this prospective real-life cohort study that included mostly severely immunocompromised patients, administration of Sot...
Equity in recruitment to Combined Infection Training, 2021: Diversity & Inclusion considerations
Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Hills Rd, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, United KingdomCambridge University Hospital ...
Statistical concern on evaluating the consistency between gargle samples and nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs in RT-qPCR-based mass screening approach for the diagnosis of COVID-19
Dear editor,We read with interest the article entitled: “Clinical performance and accuracy of a qPCR-based SARS-CoV-2 mass...
Staff and patient surveillance in hospitals: good sentinels for the emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants
Highlights•Enhanced measures in hospital to prevent nosocomial transmission and clusters•ARI surveillance in healthcare wo...
Targeting F13 from monkeypox virus and variola virus by tecovirimat: Molecular simulation analysis
Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, ChinaDepartment of Pathogen...
“Rapid reinfections with different or same Omicron SARS-CoV-2 sub-variants”
Highlights•Reinfection within Omicron sub-variants can happen in very short time•Rapid reinfections occur mostly in unvacc...
High efficacy of glecaprevir/pibrentasvir for HCV-infected individuals with active drug use: some issues
Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, TaiwanSch...
Monkeypox outbreak in Madrid (Spain): clinical and virological aspects
Background : Monkeypox is the most prevalent Orthopoxvirus zoonosis infection since the eradication ...
Poor vaccine responsiveness towards third-dose mRNA vaccine of COVID-19 in Japanese older people
KeywordsDear Editor:The older population is the main victim of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic [[1]Liu K ...
Fighting Omicron epidemic in China: real-world big data from Fangcang Shelter Hospital during the outbreak in Shanghai 2022
Dear editor,A recent letter published in your journal by Yuan et al. summarized the measures being taken in China to effec...
Age-specific prevalence of high-risk Human Papillomavirus infection among women in rural China, 2016-2018
Division of Birth Cohort Study, Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Gu...
Assessment of an institutional guideline for vancomycin dosing and identification of predictive factors associated with dose and drug trough levels
IntroductionWidespread use of electronic patient records provides a major opportunity to improve antimicrobial prescribing...
Adjusted control rate closely associated with the epidemiologic evolution of the recent COVID-19 wave in Shanghai, with 94.3% of all new cases being asymptomatic on first diagnosis
Highlights•In the recent omicron wave in Shanghai, 94.3% were asymptomatic, 3.8% of whom became symptomatic later•The raw ...
The role of Kingella kingae in pre-school aged children with bone and joint infections
Department of Infectious Diseases, Perth Children's Hospital, 15 Hospital Avenue, Nedlands WA 6009, Locked Bag 2010, Nedla...
Cytomegalovirus infection in critically ill patients with COVID-19
To the Editor:Previous studies have shown that patients hospitalised with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have a high ...
N-acetylcysteine for the treatment of COVID-19 among hospitalized patients
Highlights•Low serum levels of H2S in COVID-19 pneumonia are associated with a poor prognosis•Endogenous H2S production ca...
Incidence of non-typhoidal Salmonella invasive disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Roth GA Abate D Abate KH Abay SM Abbafati C Abbasi N et al.Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 2...
The impact of case and contact characteristics on contact tracing during the West Africa Ebola epidemic
A recent paper by Etard et al highlights how clustering of Ebola exposures around a few cases, and overdispersion of...
Risk factors for IRIS in HIV-associated pneumocystis-pneumonia following ART initiation
Background HIV-infected patients with Pneumocystis-pneumonia (PCP) may develop paradoxical immune re...
Detection of a SARS-CoV-2 P.1.1 variant lacking N501Y in a vaccinated Health Care worker in Italy
SummaryVaccines against SARS-CoV-2 are very effective, but some mutations could reduce protection. Here we report a case o...
Importance of Sample Dilution in the Evaluation of the Antibody Response after SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination
Highlights•All participants had high antibody titers after 3 months with the mRNA-BNT162b2 vaccine.•Nevertheless, a highly...
Outcomes of Covid-19 Organizing Pneumonia in Critically Ill Patients
Dear editor,Efficacy of corticosteroids in COVID-19 pneumonia has been reported in numerous studies.1The WHO Rapid Evidenc...
A stark difference in the profiles of defective viral transcripts between SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV
Dear Editor,Recently, Fantini et al. reported that mutations in the N-terminal (NTD) and receptor binding (RBD) domains of...
Vertebral osteomyelitis in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection: Evaluation of risk factors for treatment failure
Objectives Staphylococcus aureus is the most common cause of pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis (VO). Studies i...
Three-month analysis of total humoral response to Pfizer BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in healthcare workers
KeywordsDear Editor,We read with interest the article by Tré-Hardy et al.,1Tré-Hardy M Cupaiolo R Wilmet A Beukinga I Blai...
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