Wu, Jianfeng Huang, Jianqiang Zhu, Guochao Liu, Yihao Xiao, Han Zhou, Qian Si, Xiang Yi, Hui Wang, Cuiping Yang, Daya
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The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism
Systemic corticosteroids are now recommended in many treatment guidelines, although supporting evidence is limited to 1 randomized controlled clinical trial (RECOVERY). To identify whether corticosteroids were beneficial to COVID-19 patients. A total of 1514 severe and 249 critical hospitalized COVID-19 patients from 2 medical centers in Wuhan, Chi...
Srirangam Nadhamuni, Vinaya Korbonits, Márta
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Endocrine reviews
Substantial advances have been made recently in the pathobiology of pituitary tumors. Similar to many other endocrine tumors, over the last few years we have recognized the role of germline and somatic mutations in a number of syndromic or nonsyndromic conditions with pituitary tumor predisposition. These include the identification of novel germlin...
Gudin, Jeffrey Rauck, Richard Argoff, Charles Agaiby, Eva Gimbel, Joseph Katz, Nathaniel Doberstein, Stephen K Tagliaferri, Mary Tagliaferri, Margit Potts, Jeffrey
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Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.)
To evaluate the long-term safety of NKTR-181, a novel mu-opioid receptor agonist that may have reduced human abuse potential, in patients with moderate to severe chronic low back pain (CLBP) or other chronic noncancer pain (CNP). Uncontrolled, multicenter, open-label, long-term study of NKTR-181 comprised of three periods: screening (≤21 days), tre...
Shi, Ting Arnott, Andrew Semogas, Indre Falsey, Ann R Openshaw, Peter Wedzicha, Jadwiga A Campbell, Harry Nair, Harish
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The Journal of infectious diseases
Acute respiratory tract infections (ARI) constitute a substantial disease burden in adults and elderly individuals. We aimed to identify all case-control studies investigating the potential role of respiratory viruses in the etiology of ARI in older adults aged ≥65 years. We conducted a systematic literature review (across 7 databases) of case-cont...
Abdela, Seid Getahun van Griensven, Johan Seife, Fikre Enbiale, Wendemagegn
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Countries around the world are facing an enormous challenge due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The pressure that the pandemic inflicts on health systems could certainly impact on the care, control, and elimination of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). From mid-January 2020, Ethiopia started to prepare for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19. The F...
Ogoina, Dimie James, Hendris Ominabo, Dickson Oyeyemi, Abisoye Wisdom, Olomo Tudou
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Harries, Anthony D Dar Berger, Selma Satyanarayana, Srinath Thekkur, Pruthu Kumar, Ajay M V
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Research groups around the world are starting to analyse whether wastewater surveillance is a useful tool to monitor the presence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in communities. Reported studies from the Netherlands, USA, Australia and France have demonstrated that SARS-CoV-2 can be detected and quantified in wastewa...
Khattab, Nourhan M Vermund, Sten H Hu, Yifei
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
We report the first person with SARS-CoV-2 in Egypt. We interviewed the index case and contacts. The 36-year old man was healthy when he traveled on business to Wuhan, China in January 2020. Upon his return to Cairo, he became ill, went to work, and subsequent autochthonous viral spread occurred. We linked SARS-CoV-2 importation to global business ...
Vilakati, Phesheya Ndumiso Villa, Simone Alagna, Riccardo Khumalo, Bongani Tshuma, Sarah Quaresima, Virginia Nieman, Nicole Rose Cirillo, Daniela Maria Raviglione, Mario Carlo
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed health system weaknesses of economically wealthy countries with advanced technologies. COVID-19 is now moving fast across Africa where small outbreaks have been reported so far. There is a concern that with the winter transmission will grow rapidly. Despite efforts of African Governments to promptly establish mitig...
Sher, Leo
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QJM : monthly journal of the Association of Physicians
Multiple lines of evidence indicate that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has profound psychological and social effects. The psychological sequelae of the pandemic will probably persist for months and years to come. Studies indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with distress, anxiety, fear of contagion, depression and in...
