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Has Convalescent Plasma Therapy Hesitancy Increased COVID-19 Mortality?

South Asian Journal of Cancer, 2021
We bring to you our viewpoint and a snapshot of the journey of convalescent plasma therapy (CPT) in the management of ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Purvish M. Parikh, T. Sood, V. Agarwala, S. Kate   +3 more
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Randomized Controlled Trial of Early Outpatient COVID-19 Treatment with High-Titer Convalescent Plasma

medRxiv, 2021
BACKGROUND: The efficacy of polyclonal high titer convalescent plasma to prevent serious complications of COVID-19 in outpatients with recent onset of illness is uncertain.
D. Sullivan, K. Gebo, S. Shoham, E. Bloch, B. Lau, A. Shenoy, Giselle S. Mosnaim, T. Gniadek, Yuriko Fukuta, B. Patel, S. Heath, A. Levine, B. Meisenberg, E. Spivak, S. Anjan, M. Huaman, J. Blair, J. Currier, J. Paxton, Jonathan M Gerber, J. Petrini, P. Broderick, W. Rausch, M. Cordisco, J. Hammel, B. Greenblatt, Valerie Cluzet, D. Cruser, Kevin Oei, M. Abinante, Laura L Hammit, Catherine G Suttcliffe, D. Forthal, M. Zand, E. Cachay, J. Raval, S. Kassaye, Colin Foster, M. Roth, Christi E. Marshall, Anusha Yarava, K. Lane, N. McBee, Amy L. Gawad, Nicky Karlen, Atika Singh, D. Ford, D. Jabs, L. Appel, David M. Shade, S. Ehrhardt, S. Baksh, O. Laeyendecker, A. Pekosz, S. Klein, A. Casadevall, A. Tobian, D. Hanley   +57 more
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Reproducibility of serological titers [PDF]

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 1980
Serologists are making increasing use of the term "reproducibility" when referring to the reliability or repeatability of serological tests. The practical use of the concept, however, has been limited by the absence of an appropriate numerical scale on which differing reproducibilities can be quantified and objectively compared.
R J Wood, T M Durham
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The association between obesity and peak antibody titer response in COVID‐19 infection

Obesity, 2021
Obesity is associated with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) infection. Disease severity is associated with a higher COVID‐19 antibody titer.
S. Soffer, Benjamin S. Glicksberg, E. Zimlichman, Orly Efros, M. Levin, R. Freeman, D. Reich, Eyal Klang   +7 more
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Serological Screening for Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in Dutch Shelter Cats

Viruses, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic raised concerns that companion animals might be infected with, and could become a reservoir of, SARS-CoV-2. As cats are popular pets and susceptible to Coronavirus, we investigated the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in ...
W. J. R. van der Leij, Els M. Broens, Jan Willem Hesselink, Nancy Schuurman, Johannes C. M. Vernooij, Herman F. Egberink   +5 more
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Assessment of protective serum anti-HBsAb levels among previously HBV vaccinated medical residents and its relation to duration and doses of vaccine – single center study [PDF]

Microbes and Infectious Diseases, 2023
Background:  Hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccination is mandatory among health care workers due to high risk of exposure to infection. However, the long-term protective effect of HBV vaccine and assessment of HBV vaccination status by measuring HBsAb remain ...
Mohamed Hashem, Hanan Abdel-Haleem, Marwa khairy, Ayatallah Nassef, Mahmoud Essam Eldin, Eman D. El Desouky   +5 more
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The Influence of β-1,3-1,6-Glucans on Rabies Vaccination Titers in Cats

Veterinary Sciences, 2020
β-glucans have been shown to stimulate the immune system in several animal species. The aim of this study was to evaluate the immune stimulation capacity of a fully formulated diet with β-1,3-1,6-glucans in cats, by assessing the rabies antibody titer ...
John Byrne, Darryn Knobel, Susan M. Moore, Stephanie Gatrell, Patrick Butaye   +4 more
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Immunoadsorption in ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation in adult and pediatric patients with follow-up on graft and patient survival: First series from India

Asian Journal of Transfusion Science, 2020
Background: There are no published reports on desensitization protocol for ABO-incompatible kidney transplants using Immuno-Adsorption (IA) plasmapheresis from India.
Aseem Kumar Tiwari, Geet Aggarwal, Dinesh Arora, Gunjan Bhardwaj, Manish Jain, Shyam Bihari Bansal, Sidharth K Sethi   +6 more
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High neutralizing antibody titer in intensive care unit patients with COVID-19

Emerging Microbes and Infections, 2020
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has a wide spectrum of disease severity from mild upper respiratory symptoms to respiratory failure. The role of neutralizing antibody (NAb) response in disease progression remains elusive.
Li Liu, K. To, Kwok-Hung Chan, Y. Wong, R. Zhou, Ka-Yi Kwan, C. Fong, Lin-lei Chen, C. Y. Choi, Lu Lu, O. Tsang, W. Leung, W. To, I. Hung, K. Yuen, Zhiwei Chen   +15 more
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Mixed viral infection constrains the genome formula of multipartite cucumber mosaic virus

Frontiers in Virology, 2023
Many plant viruses have a multipartite organization, with multiple genome segments packaged into separate virus particles. The genome formula describes the relative frequencies of all viral genome segments, and previous work suggests rapid changes in ...
Dieke Boezen, Dieke Boezen, Maritta Vermeulen, Marcelle L. Johnson, Marcelle L. Johnson, René A. A. van der Vlugt, Carolyn M. Malmstrom, Mark P. Zwart   +7 more
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