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Children and young adults with compromised immune systems, such as those undergoing cancer treatment, may experience a prolonged period of infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and the extended duration of infection may increase the incidence of mutations. This case study was...
As theCOVID-19 pandemiccontinues, clinicians are learning more about the long-term effects of the disease on a person’s overall health. Some coronavirus patients continue to feel the effects of the condition months after initial infection, experiencinglong COVID. TheNational Institutes of Health (...
and then declines as antibodies develop and antibody titers rise over the subsequent 2 to 3 weeks.2,3Success in culturing virus from nasopharyngeal specimens declines quickly during the first week of mild illness, but the absolute duration that a patient might shed infectious virus is unknown.2Per...
Data on effectiveness and protection duration of Covid-19 vaccines and previous infection against general SARS-CoV-2 infection in general populations are limited. Here we evaluate protection from Covid-19 vaccination (primary series) and previous infecti
Different COVID-19 variants have been storming across the region, leading to more severe infections and deaths even in places with high vaccination coverage. This study aims to assess the spatiotemporal variability of the COVID-19 pandemic and estimate the infection fatality rate (IFR), infection...
of the global coronavirus pandemic, known as COVID-19. In particular, a vaccine capable of eliciting a strong immune response could substantially reduce the future burden of infection, according to a study by Princeton researchers published in the journalScienceSept. 21. Credit: Tumisu from ...
A case of COVID-19 with long duration of viral sheddingdoi:10.1016/j.jmii.2020.05.008Changtai WangMengyuan XuZhenhua ZhangJournal of microbiology, immunology, and infection = Wei mian yu gan ran za zhi
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Importantly, corticosteroids (6 mg dexamethasone or equivalent given once daily for up to 10 days) are now recommended by the WHO in severe and critical forms of COVID-19.6 8Thus, it may well be that although the dose and duration of cortic...