Wastewater-based surveillance as a tool for public health action: SARS-CoV-2 and beyond

MD Parkins, BE Lee, N Acosta, M Bautista… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) has undergone dramatic advancement in the context
of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The power and potential of this …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 variants identification: overview of molecular existing methods

G Berno, L Fabeni, G Matusali, CEM Gruber, M Rueca… - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
Since the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic the Real Time sharing of genome sequences of
circulating virus supported the diagnostics and surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 and its …

Nursing home staff mental health during the Covid‐19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland

C Brady, C Fenton, O Loughran… - … Journal of Geriatric …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Nursing homes for older adults have been disproportionately affected by the
Covid‐19 pandemic with increased mortality of residents and staff distress. Objective To …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling COVID-19 transmission dynamics: a bibliometric review

GG Goswami, T Labib - … journal of environmental research and public …, 2022 - mdpi.com
A good amount of research has evolved just in three years in COVID-19 transmission,
mortality, vaccination, and some socioeconomic studies. A few bibliometric reviews have …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic genomic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 co-infections throughout the pandemic and segregation of the strains involved

D Peñas-Utrilla, L Pérez-Lago, A Molero-Salinas… - Genome medicine, 2023 - Springer
Background SARS-CoV-2 recombinants involving the divergent Delta and Omicron lineages
have been described, and one of them,“Kraken”(XBB. 1.5), has recently been a matter of …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 convalescent plasma boosts early antibody titer and does not influence the adaptive immune response

JF McDyer, M Azimpouran, VL Durkalski-Mauldin… - JCI insight, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Multiple randomized, controlled clinical trials have yielded discordant results regarding the
efficacy of convalescent plasma in outpatients, with some showing an approximately 2-fold …

[HTML][HTML] Global “flu-ization” of COVID-19: A perspective from Vietnam

KQ Nguyen, LMA Nguyen… - Frontiers in Public …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The widespread Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 causes mild to asymptomatic
manifestations. Immunity is increasing among populations thanks to both vaccination and …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of COVID-19 restrictions on HIV prevention and treatment services for key populations in South Africa: an interrupted time series analysis

D Yao, N Hill, B Brown, D Gule, M Chabane… - BMC Public Health, 2024 - Springer
Background Key populations (KP), including men who have sex with men (MSM), female
sex workers (FSW), and transgender women (TGW), experience a disproportionate burden …

[HTML][HTML] Older adults who maintained a regular physical exercise routine before the pandemic show better immune response to vaccination for COVID-19

BR Silva, FR Monteiro, K Cezário, JB Amaral… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background: In this study, we aimed to investigate the specific-antibody response to the
COVID-19 vaccination and the immunophenotyping of T cells in older adults who were …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating Data Sharing of SARS-CoV-2 Genomes for Molecular Epidemiology across the COVID-19 Pandemic

T Rito, P Fernandes, R Duarte, P Soares - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
Following the emergence of COVID-19 in December 2019, caused by the coronavirus SARS-
CoV-2, the disease spread dramatically worldwide. The use of genomics to trace the …