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Response to How prepared is Africa to face COVID-19?" by Wadoum and Clarke."
A recent commentary published in this journal correctly notes the important challenges that must be addressed to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa. While we agree with the basic assumptions and arguments of their essay, we argue…
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A potential role for Galectin-3 inhibitors in the treatment of COVID-19
The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2), the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has been declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization. With no standard of care for the treatment…
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Societal learning in epidemics: intervention effectiveness during the 2003 SARS outbreak in Singapore.
BACKGROUND: Rapid response to outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases is impeded by uncertain diagnoses and delayed communication. Understanding the effect of inefficient response is a potentially important contribution of epidemic theory. To…
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Time course and cellular localization of SARS-CoV nucleoprotein and RNA in lungs from fatal cases of SARS.
Cellular localization of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in the lungs of patients with SARS is important in confirming the etiological association of the virus with disease as well as in understanding the pathogenesis of the…
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Distribución espacial y estructura de la población de <i>Pitcairnia huilensis</i> (Bromeliaceae) en el valle alto del río Magdalena (Huila, Colombia
Se estudió el patrón de distribución espacial y la estructura de la población de Pitcairnia huilensis (Bromeliaceae), una especie considerada en Peligro Crítico (CR), del valle alto del río Magdalena en los Andes colombianos. La distribución espacial…
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Exploración de la variabilidad genética del maracuyá (Passiflora edulis f. flavicarpa Degener) como base para un programa de fitomejoramiento en Colombia
El maracuyá es uno de los principales frutales del Neotrópico y en Colombia existen cerca de 6000 ha cultivadas con esta fruta, con una producción de 90,000 t/año. No obstante este potencial, los cultivos presentan graves problemas fitosanitarios y…
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A Unique Protein Self-Assembling Nanoparticle with Significant Advantages in Vaccine Development and Production
Nanoparticles are playing an increasingly powerful role in vaccine development. Here, we report the repurposing of nonstructural proteins 10 and 11 (hereafter NSP10) from the replicase polyprotein 1a (pp1a) of the human SARS coronavirus (severe acute…
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Excess out-of-hospital sudden deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic: A direct or indirect effect of SARS-CoV-2 infections?
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COVID-19 and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Center-Specific Survival Analysis: Can We Adjust for the Impact of the Pandemic? Recommendations of the COVID-19 Task Force of the 2020 Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplantation Research Center Outcomes Forum.
COVID-19 has significantly impacted the practice of hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) and likely affected outcomes of HCT recipients. Early reports document substantially higher case fatality rates for HCT recipients than seen in faced by the…
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Prevalence, Severity and Mortality associated with COPD and Smoking in patients with COVID-19: A Rapid Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
BACKGROUND:Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an evolving infectious disease that dramatically spread all over the world in the early part of 2020. No studies have yet summarized the potential severity and mortality risks caused by COVID-19 in…
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