Policies on children and schools during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Western Europe

A Soriano-Arandes, A Brett, D Buonsenso… - Frontiers in public …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
During the pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2), mitigation policies for children have been a topic of considerable uncertainty and …

Promotion of neutralizing antibody-independent immunity to wild-type and SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern using an RBD-Nucleocapsid fusion protein

JT Castro, P Azevedo, MJ Fumagalli… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Both T cells and B cells have been shown to be generated after infection with SARS-CoV-2
yet protocols or experimental models to study one or the other are less common. Here, we …

Rhinovirus as the main co-circulating virus during the COVID-19 pandemic in children

FH Varela, ITS Sartor, M Polese-Bonatto… - Jornal de …, 2022 - SciELO Brasil
Objective: Changes in the epidemiology of respiratory infections during the restrictions
imposed as a response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have been …

Tonsils are major sites of persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in children

TM Lima, RB Martins, CS Miura, MVO Souza… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
In the present study, we show that SARS-CoV-2 can infect palatine tonsils, adenoids, and
secretions in children without symptoms of COVID-19, with no history of recent upper airway …

SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity and COVID-19 among 5 years-old Amazonian children and their association with poverty and food insecurity

MU Ferreira, I Giacomini, PM Sato… - PLoS Neglected …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background The epidemiology of childhood SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19-related
illness remains little studied in high-transmission tropical settings, partly due to the less …

T cells in SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination

A Young - Therapeutic Advances in Vaccines and …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
While antibodies garner the lion's share of attention in SARS-CoV-2 immunity, cellular
immunity (T cells) may be equally, if not more important, in controlling infection. Both CD8+ …

An artificial neural network classification method employing longitudinally monitored immune biomarkers to predict the clinical outcome of critically ill COVID-19 …

G Martinez, A Garduno, A Mahmud-Al-Rafat… - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Background The severe form of COVID-19 can cause a dysregulated host immune
syndrome that might lead patients to death. To understand the underlying immune …

Non-spike and spike-specific memory T cell responses after the third dose of inactivated COVID-19 vaccine

R Huang, L Ying, J Wang, J Xia, Y Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background During the COVID-19 epidemic, vaccination has become the most safe and
effective way to prevent severe illness and death. Inactivated vaccines are the most widely …

Identification of COVID-19-associated DNA methylation variations by integrating methylation array and scRNA-Seq data at cell-type resolution

G Wang, Z Xiong, F Yang, X Zheng, W Zong, R Li… - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Single-cell transcriptome studies have revealed immune dysfunction in COVID-19 patients,
including lymphopenia, T cell exhaustion, and increased levels of pro-inflammatory …

A high CMV-specific T cell response associates with SARS-CoV-2-specific IL-17 T cell production

FTB Frozza, T Fazolo, PO De Souza, K Lima… - Medical Microbiology …, 2023 - Springer
Human cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a widespread persistent herpes virus requiring lifelong
immune surveillance to maintain latency. Such long-term interactions with the immune …