Urbach, Dietmar Awiszus, Friedemann Leiß, Sven Venton, Tamsin Specht, Alexander Vincent De Apfelbacher, Christian
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JMIR public health and surveillance
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread across the globe, the search for an effective medication to treat the symptoms of COVID-19 continues as well. It would be desirable to identify a medication that is already in use for another condition and whose side effect profile and safety data are already known and approved. The objective of this stu...
De Carlo, Armando Lo Caputo, Sergio Paolillo, Carmela Rosa, Anna Maria D’Orsi, Umberto De Palma, Maria Reveglia, Pierluigi Lacedonia, Donato Cinnella, Gilda Foschino, Maria Pia
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the first coronavirus that has caused a pandemic. Assessing the prevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 in healthcare worker groups offers a unique opportunity to study the correlation between seroconversion and immunization because of their occupational exposure and a higher risk of contagion. ...
Cuenca-Arias, Paloma Montaño, Lucy Angeline Villarreal, José Miguel Wiesner, Magdalena
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Biomédica
Introducción. La variante monofásica (1,4,[5],12:i:-) de Salmonella Typhimurium ocupa los primeros lugares en los programas de vigilancia de Salmonella a nivel mundial. En Colombia, Salmonella enterica variante monofásica alcanza el cuarto lugar en cuanto a los aislamientos clínicos recuperados por medio de la vigilancia por laboratorio del Grupo d...
Costantini, Massimo Giorgi Rossi, Paolo Grilli, Roberto Marino, Massimiliano Formisano, Debora Formoso, Giulio Bedeschi, Emanuela Perilli, Cinzia Venturi, Ivano Bisaccia, Eufemia
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Eurosurveillance
We report epidemiological investigations of transmission of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in 41 classes of 36 schools in Reggio Emilia province, northern Italy, from their reopening on 1 September to 15 October 2020. The overall secondary case attack rate was 3.2%, reaching 6.6% in middle and high schools. More ti...
Rodrigues, D Muc, M Machado-Rodrigues, A M Padez, C
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Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)
To observe the trends of overweight and obesity among Portuguese children from 2002 to 2016, before and during the years of the economic crisis, and compare these trends according to family's socioeconomic position (SEP). Prevalence rates were calculated using data from six studies providing comparable estimates from 2002, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2016...
Guan, Jingyuan Zhang, Mei
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Oncology Letters
Anthracycline drugs are considered to be pivotal drugs in numerous chemotherapy regimens for breast cancer. However, the cardiotoxicity associated with the treatment is an important issue to be addressed. With the emergence of increasingly diverse antitumor drugs, anthracycline-free therapies are able to reduce the cardiotoxicity caused by anthracy...
Huang, Liping Yu, Jie Neal, Bruce Liu, Yishu Yin, Xuejun Hao, Zhixin Wu, Yangfeng Yan, Lijing L Wu, Jason Hy Joshi, Rohina
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Journal of epidemiology and community health
In rural China, mortality surveillance data may be an alternative to primary data collection in clinical trials; SmartVA (verbal autopsy) is also a potential alternative for endpoint adjudication. The feasibility and validity of both need to be assessed. We used mortality data from the first 24 months of the China Salt Substitute and Stroke Study (...
Parikh, Meghana P Vandekar, Simon Moore, Christina Thomas, Linda Britt, Nathan Piya, Bhinnata Stewart, Laura S Batarseh, Einas Hamdan, Lubna Cavallo, Steffany J
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Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
In the United States, surveillance of norovirus gastroenteritis is largely restricted to outbreaks, limiting our knowledge of the contribution of sporadic illness to the overall impact on reported outbreaks. Understanding norovirus transmission dynamics is vital for improving preventive measures, including norovirus vaccine development. We analyzed...
Xu, Paiheng Dredze, Mark Broniatowski, David A
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Journal of medical Internet research
Social distancing is an important component of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Minimizing social interactions and travel reduces the rate at which the infection spreads and "flattens the curve" so that the medical system is better equipped to treat infected individuals. However, it remains unclear how the public will respond to these policie...
Zhang, Melvyn Chow, Aloysius Smith, Helen
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Journal of medical Internet research
Apps that enable contact-tracing are instrumental in mitigating the transmission of COVID-19, but there have been concerns among users about the data collected by these apps and their management. Contact tracing is of paramount importance when dealing with a pandemic, as it allows for rapid identification of cases based on the information collected...