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Use of Rapid Antigen Detection Tests Versus Viral Culture in De-isolation Decision-Making for Critically Ill Patients Infected with Omicron B.1.1.529

Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Journal, 2023
Background COVID-19 vaccination effectively decreased hospitalization and mortality during the surge of infections with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.
Abeer N. Alshukairi, Ashraf Dada, Yasser Aldabbagh, Mohammed F. Saeedi, Sherif A. El-Kafrawy, Ahmed M. Hassan, Thamir A. Alandijany, Mohammad K. Al Hroub, Basem M. Alraddadi, Imran Khalid, Ghadeer E. Albishi, Mohammed Qutub, Aiman El-Saed, Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq, Fatimah S. Alhamlan, Esam I. Azhar, Awad Al-Omari   +16 more
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Boosting in the age of Omicron

eLife, 2023
A third dose of the inactivated vaccine CoronaVac fails to stimulate the production of neutralizing antibodies which target the Omicron variant.
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Conceptions of child development, assessment, and health among indigenous families in primary care: a qualitative study

Frontiers in Public Health
AimThis exploratory qualitative study examines Indigenous conceptions of child development, health, and developmental assessment from the perspectives of Mapuche, Aymara, and Diaguita families, together with primary health care professionals who provide ...
Camila Lucchini-Raies, Claudia Bustamante-Troncoso, Claudia Alcayaga-Rojas, Angélica Farías-Cancino, Dayann Martínez-Santana, Marcela González-Agüero, Solange Campos-Romero, Carolina Muñoz-Guzmán, Antonia Alarcón, Francisca Marquez-Doren   +9 more
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The choice of the DNA extraction method may influence the outcome of the soil microbial community structure analysis

MicrobiologyOpen, 2017
Metagenomics approaches and recent improvements in the next‐generation sequencing methods, have become a method of choice in establishing a microbial population structure. Many commercial soil DNA extraction kits are available and due to their efficiency
Sylwia Zielińska, Piotr Radkowski, Aleksandra Blendowska, Agnieszka Ludwig‐Gałęzowska, Joanna M. Łoś, Marcin Łoś   +5 more
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BA.2 omicron differs immunologically from both BA.1 omicron and pre-omicron variants

Nature Communications, 2022
Abstract Background Several studies have shown that SARS-CoV-2 BA.1 omicron is an immune escape variant and current vaccines and infection with pre-omicron variants provide limited protection against BA.1.
Annika Rössler, Antonia Netzl, Ludwig Knabl, Helena Schäfer, Samuel H. Wilks, David Bante, Barbara Falkensammer, Wegene Borena, Dorothee von Laer, Derek Smith, Janine Kimpel   +10 more
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Analysis of a super-transmission of SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant BA.5.2 in the outdoor night market

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage the world, and mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 continues. The new strain has become more transmissible.
Mingyu Luo, Shelan Liu, Liebo Zhu, Fengying Wang, Kunyang Wu, Hanqing He, Xiaohua Qi, Zhifeng Pang, Xuanjun Dong, Zhenyu Gong, Min Yu   +10 more
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Early detection of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of interest for experimental evaluation

Frontiers in Bioinformatics, 2022
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 has demonstrated its ability to rapidly and continuously evolve, leading to the emergence of thousands of different sequence variants, many with distinctive phenotypic properties.
Zachary S. Wallace, Zachary S. Wallace, James Davis, James Davis, Anna Maria Niewiadomska, Robert D. Olson, Robert D. Olson, Maulik Shukla, Maulik Shukla, Rick Stevens, Rick Stevens, Yun Zhang, Christian M. Zmasek, Richard H. Scheuermann, Richard H. Scheuermann, Richard H. Scheuermann, Richard H. Scheuermann   +16 more
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Omicron, the great escape artist [PDF]

Nature Reviews Immunology, 2022
Less than a month after the sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant was first announced, a number of articles in Nature and Cell examine its immune evasion characteristics.
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Modelling the potential public health impact of different vaccination strategies with an omicron-adapted bivalent vaccine in Thailand

Expert Review of Vaccines, 2023
Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causing COVID-19 has continuously evolved, requiring the development of adapted vaccines.
Karan Thakkar, Julia Spinardi, Moe H. Kyaw, Jingyan Yang, Carlos Fernando Mendoza, Egemen Ozbilgili, Josie Dodd, Ben Yarnoff, Suda Punrin   +8 more
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Limited permissibility of ENL-R and Mv-1-Lu mink cell lines to SARS-CoV-2

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic started in the end of 2019 in Wuhan, China, which highlighted the scenario of frequent cross-species transmission events. From the outbreak possibly initiated by viral spill-over into humans from an animal reservoir, now we face ...
Marion Le Bideau, Marion Le Bideau, Gabriel Augusto Pires de Souza, Gabriel Augusto Pires de Souza, Celine Boschi, Celine Boschi, Jean-Pierre Baudoin, Jean-Pierre Baudoin, Gwilherm Penant, Gwilherm Penant, Priscilla Jardot, Priscilla Jardot, Florence Fenollar, Florence Fenollar, Philippe Colson, Philippe Colson, Matthias Lenk, Bernard La Scola, Bernard La Scola   +18 more
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