Lee, Tau Hong Junhao Lin, Ray Lin, Raymond T P Barkham, Timothy Rao, Pooja Leo, Yee-Sin Chien Lye, David Young, Barnaby
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Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
The COVID-19 epidemic requires accurate identification and isolation of confirmed cases for effective control. This report describes the effectiveness of our testing strategy and highlights the importance of repeat testing in suspected cases in our cohort. © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Societ...
Rader, Benjamin Astley, Christina M Sy, Karla Therese L Sewalk, Kara Hswen, Yulin Brownstein, John S Kraemer, Moritz U G
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Journal of travel medicine
Byrne, Rachel L. Kay, Grant A. Kontogianni, Konstantina Aljayyoussi, Ghaith Brown, Lottie Collins, Andrea M. Cuevas, Luis E. Ferreira, Daniela M. Fraser, Alice J. Garrod, Gala
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
PCR of upper respiratory specimens is the diagnostic standard for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection. However, saliva sampling is an easy alternative to nasal and throat swabbing. We found similar viral loads in saliva samples and in nasal and throat swab samples from 110 patients with coronavirus disease.
Rader, Benjamin Astley, Christina M Sy, Karla Therese L Sewalk, Kara Hswen, Yulin Brownstein, John S Kraemer, Moritz UG
We paired high-resolution travel-time metrics with a SARS-CoV-2 testing location database in the United States. Median travel time to testing sites is longer in counties with lower population density, and a higher percent of minority and uninsured individuals. Differential geographic accessibility to testing can recapitulate healthcare disparities ...
Fernàndez-López, Laura Reyes-Urueña, Juliana Conway, Anna Saz, Jorge Morales, Adriana Quezadas, Jaime Baroja, Jordi Rafel, Anna Pazos, Ander Avellaneda, Anna
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Eurosurveillance
Background Community-based HIV testing services combined with the use of point-of-care tests (POCT) have the potential to improve early diagnosis through increasing availability, accessibility and uptake of HIV testing. Aim To describe community-based HIV testing activity in Catalonia, Spain, from 1995 to 2018, and to evaluate the impact of HIV POC...
Blackburn, Justin Weaver, Lindsay Cohen, Liza Menachemi, Nir Rusyniak, Dan Unroe, Kathleen T.
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Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
Objectives To assess whether using coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) community activity level can accurately inform strategies for routine testing of facility staff for active severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Design Cross-sectional study Setting and Participants 59,930 nursing home staff tested for active SA...
Mossong, Joël Mombaerts, Laurent Veiber, Lisa Pastore, Jessica LeCoroller, Gwenaelle Schnell, Michael Masi, Silvana Huiart, Laetitia Wilmes, Paul
Background: The role of schools and children in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 remains to be determined. Following a first wave in spring and gradual easing of lockdown, Luxembourg experienced an early second epidemic wave before the start of summer school holidays on 15th July. This provided the opportunity to study the role of school-age children...
Grin’, E. A. Zelenskii, A. V. Pchelintsev, A. V.
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Thermal Engineering
AbstractThe operational reliability of feed pipelines made of 15GS steel used at thermal power plants is considered. The reason for the study consists in an incident at a Mongolian TPP, constructed according to a Soviet project, consisting in the detection of cracks in one of the bends of the feed pipeline. The zone of metal damage was removed, aft...
Joshi, Aditi U Lewiss, Resa E Aini, Maria Babula, Bracken Henwood, Patricia C
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JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Background Telehealth has emerged as a crucial component of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic emergency response. Simply stated, telehealth is a tool to provide health care from a distance. Jefferson Health has leveraged its acute care telehealth platform to screen, order testing, and manage patients with COVID-19–related concerns. Objective This study aims ...
Smith, Rasheid Geary, Sean M Salem, Aliasger K
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Future Virology
