[HTML][HTML] Long COVID in a prospective cohort of home-isolated patients

B Blomberg, KGI Mohn, KA Brokstad, F Zhou… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Long-term complications after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are common in
hospitalized patients, but the spectrum of symptoms in milder cases needs further …

Titers of antibodies against ancestral SARS-CoV-2 correlate with levels of neutralizing antibodies to multiple variants

TT Tran, EB Vaage, A Mehta, A Chopra, L Tietze… - npj Vaccines, 2022 - nature.com
Diagnostic assays currently used to monitor the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines measure
levels of antibodies to the receptor-binding domain of ancestral SARS-CoV-2 (RBDwt) …

SARS-CoV-2 and the role of close contact in transmission: a systematic review

IJ Onakpoya, CJ Heneghan, EA Spencer… - …, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: SARS-CoV-2 transmission has been reported to be associated with close
contact with infected individuals. However, the mechanistic pathway for transmission in …

Symptom burden and immune dynamics 6 to 18 months following mild severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection (SARS-CoV-2): a case-control study

EB Fjelltveit, B Blomberg, K Kuwelker… - Clinical Infectious …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background The burden and duration of persistent symptoms after nonsevere coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) remains uncertain. This study aimed to assess postinfection …

Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Denmark: nationwide, population-based seroepidemiological study

L Espenhain, S Tribler, C Sværke Jørgensen… - European journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Seroprevalence studies have proven an important tool to monitor the progression of the
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We present results of consecutive …

Household transmission of SARS-CoV-2: a prospective longitudinal study showing higher viral load and increased transmissibility of the alpha variant compared to …

CH Julin, AH Robertson, O Hungnes, G Tunheim… - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
We studied the secondary attack rate (SAR), risk factors, and precautionary practices of
household transmission in a prospective, longitudinal study. We further compared …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic review of outbreaks of COVID-19 within households in the European region when the child is the index case

CI Vardavas, K Nikitara, K Aslanoglou… - BMJ Paediatrics …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objectives This systematic review aims to identify the secondary attack rates (SAR) to adults
and other children when children are the index cases within household settings. Methods …

SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics in households with children, Los Angeles, California

ML Tanaka, CJ Marentes Ruiz, S Malhotra… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Objectives: Studies of household transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) focused on households with children are limited. We …

SARS-CoV-2 specific immune responses in overweight and obese COVID-19 patients

TB Onyango, F Zhou, G Bredholt, KA Brokstad… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Obesity is a known risk factor for severe respiratory tract infections. In this prospective study,
we assessed the impact of being obese or overweight on longitudinal SARS-CoV-2 humoral …

From rejection to the Nobel Prize: Karikó and Weissman's pioneering work on mRNA vaccines, and the need for diversity and inclusion in translational immunology

A Bansal - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman were given the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine for their findings of nucleoside base modifications that lead to the development of …