Patra, Pratap Kumar Das, Rashmi Ranjan Banday, Aaqib Zaffar Singh, Mini Goyal, Kapil Jindal, Ankur Kumar Singh, Surjit
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Aim: To study the association between non-SARS, non-MERS human coronavirus (HCoV) infections and Kawasaki disease (KD). Methods: Meta-analysis of observational studies published until 1 May 2021. Results: Out of 571 papers retrieved through database search, 10 provided data of 17,732 children. Age ranged from 2 months–14.9 years with 66% being male...
Shafaati, Maryam Saidijam, Massoud Soleimani, Meysam Hazrati, Fereshte Mirzaei, Rasoul Amirheidari, Bagher Tanzadehpanah, Hamid Karampoor, Sajad Kazemi, Sima Yavari, Bahram
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This article provides a brief overview of DNA vaccines. First, the basic DNA vaccine design strategies are described, then specific issues related to the industrial production of DNA vaccines are discussed, including the production and purification of DNA products such as plasmid DNA, minicircle DNA, minimalistic, immunologically defined gene expre...
Akbari, Mehran Didehdar, Mojtaba Nazari, Mohsen Azadi, Davood
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Aim: We report two cases of pediatric patients diagnosed and treated for pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS) symptoms. Materials & methods: Two previously healthy 3- and 4-year-old boys were referred to the hospital after 5 days of 39°C fever, with symptoms such as erythema multiform in the lo...
Rossignol, Jean-François
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Milano, Gerard Gal, Jocelyn Creisson, Anne Chamorey, Emmanuel
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While tolerance to COVID-19 vaccination is considered satisfactory, a phenomenon of myocarditis, although rare, is becoming a safety concern in mRNA COVID-19 vaccination. The presence of low residual levels of double-strand RNA (dsRNA) has been reported in mRNA COVID-19 vaccine preparations. dsRNA is a known inducer of immune-inflammatory reactions...
Makoah, Nigel A Tipih, Thomas Litabe, Matefo M Brink, Mareza Sempa, Joseph B Goedhals, Dominique Burt, Felicity J
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Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the utility of serological tests for the diagnosis of COVID-19 during the first week of symptom onset in patients confirmed with the real-time RT-PCR. Materials & methods: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 58 publications were performed using data obtained from Academic Search Ultimate, Africa-wi...
Golabchi, Khodayar Rezaee, Alireza Aghadoost, Davood Hashemipour, Maryam
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Aim: A variety of manifestations in different organs could be associated with severe COVID-19; for example, ocular manifestations. Case report: A 52-year-old male complaining of sudden onset unilateral painless vision loss in the right eye for 1 month (started just 1 week after COVID-19 remission) came to the ophthalmology clinic. On further evalua...
Chirico, Francesco Nucera, Gabriella Ilesanmi, Olayinka Afolabi, Aanuoluwapo Pruc, Michal Szarpak, Lukasz
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Brown, Cameron A Amerson-Brown, Megan H Rahman, Aliza Webb, Charity R Singh, Ila R Dunn, James J
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Aim: This study evaluated the real-world performance of six test systems for detection of SARS-CoV-2 in 138 pediatric and 110 adult maternal patients. Materials & methods: Nasopharyngeal swabs were tested directly using the Aptima™ SARS-CoV-2 (Aptima) and Simplexa™ COVID-19 Direct (Simplexa), and with Altona RealStar® RT-PCR and CDC RT-PCR with nuc...
Sadoff, J Struyf, F Douoguih, M
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This is a summary of a publication about the ENSEMBLE trial of the Janssen Ad26.COV2.S vaccine against COVID-19, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in April 2021. The ENSEMBLE study started in September 2020 and is still ongoing. The study compared the effectiveness of the vaccine to a placebo in 43,783 adults from Latin Ame...