The Coronavirus Disease 2019 Outbreak Highlights the Importance of Sex-sensitive Medicine
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has revealed important differences between the sexes in epidemiology, risk factors, clinical course, mortality and socioeconomic dimensions of the disease in all populations worldwide.
Angela HEM Maas, Sabine Oertelt-Prigione
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Molecular mechanisms of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) [PDF]
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a new infectious disease caused by a novel coronavirus that leads to deleterious pulmonary pathological features.
David A Groneberg +6 more
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The SARS-coronavirus-host interactome [PDF]
Coronaviruses (CoVs) are important human and animal pathogens that induce fatal respiratory, gastrointestinal and neurological disease. The outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2002/2003 has demonstrated human vulnerability to ...
Brunn, Albrecht von +27 more
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Surrogate markers for disease progression in treated HIV infection. [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: To characterize the relationships among highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), HIV-1 RNA levels, immune system markers, and clinical outcome in a cohort of HIV-1-infected homosexual men.
Miedema, F +23 more
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Epidemiology of the first 100 cases of COVID-19 in Taiwan and its implications on outbreak control
Purpose: To describe the epidemiology and outcome of the first 100 COVID-19 cases in Taiwan. Methods: We included the first 100 patients with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in Taiwan.
Tsung-Pei Tsou +20 more
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In vitro and in vivo expression of foreign genes by transmissible gastroenteritis coronavirus-derived minigenomes [PDF]
A helper-dependent expression system based on transmissible gastroenteritis coronavirus (TGEV) has been developed using a minigenome of 3·9 kb (M39).
Enjuanes, L. +11 more
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Human monoclonal antibody combination against SARS coronavirus : synergy and coverage of escape mutants [PDF]
Background: Experimental animal data show that protection against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) infection with human monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) is feasible.
Peiris, Joseph S. M. +73 more
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Obesity and Coronavirus Disease 2019
Obesity, which is one of the most important noncommunicable diseases, has become an epidemic. With the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the collision of these two health risks has increased the threat of adverse events and serious threats to public health.
Kim, Min-Ji, Jeon, Jae-Han
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Heart Failure: A Multiparametric Approach
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a debilitating viral infection and, to date, 628,903 people have died from it, numbers that cannot yet be compared to the 50 million who died in the 1918 flu pandemic.
Estefania Oliveros +5 more
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Comparative analysis of environmental persistence of SARS-CoV-2 variants and seasonal coronaviruses
Conducting persistence studies of infectious severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) on environmental surfaces may require a biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) laboratory. We aimed to compare the environmental persistence of BSL-2 level human
Geun Woo Park +10 more
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