Bacterial co-infection is a known major source of sickness and death in the context of other respiratory viral infections such as influenza, parainfluenza or RSV. However, it has been unclear regarding the frequency of bacteremic co-infection in COVID-19 and the impact it has on clinical outco...
The febrile infant: Is it COVID-19 or a serious bacterial infection?.Ohlin, AndreasActa Paediatrica
A few potential candidates have been isolated in Hubei province [18] and may serve as the basis for retrospective serological testing to confirm prior infection and resultant risk for ADE has occurred. We are just beginning to understand the dynamics of COVID-19 in humans and the impact of ...
INTRODUCTION :Personal protective equipment (PPE) may protect health-care workers from COVID-19 infection and limit nosocomial spread to vulnerable hip fracture patients. METHODS :We performed a cross-sectional survey amongst orthopaedic trainees to explore PPE practice in 19 hospitals caring for hip ...
What is an asymptomatic covid-19 infection? 问 什么是新型冠状病毒无症状感染者? 核酸检测阳性+无发热、咳嗽、咽痛、乏力、味觉减退等症状+肺部CT也无肺炎表现=无症状感染。 就是说患者携带了新冠病毒,但是不发病,没有明显症状,自己...
COVID-19. At the beginning of this pandemic, it was difficult to identify COVID-19 risk factors, that can be targeted for disease prevention. Working on risk factors can, in fact, prevent infection and improve outcomes. Now it is well known that obesity represents a significant risk factor...
COVID-19 deaths: Infection fatality ratio is about 1% says new report by Sabine L. Van Elsland,Imperial College London Credit: CC0 Public Domain The COVID infection fatality ratio is around 1% in high-income countries, but substantially lower in low-income countries with younger populations. ...
Also known as COVID-19 there is little known about Coronavirus and how to vaccinate people against it. As per now, the causative agent is Coronavirus with a majority of the patients experiencing moderate to mild respiratory illness. Such patients often r
How does COVID-19 take over a patient's system? RAZOR has been exploring a new theory about that and finds out what causes fluid build-up in patients' lungs. The premise is that an excess of bradykinin, an inflammatory molecule made up of a short chain of amino aci...
Physical distancing of at least a metre is associated with a "large reduction" in covid-19 infection, and keeping apart two metres may be even more effective, a study funded by the World Health Organization has found.1 Researchers from Canada and Lebanon carried out a systematic review and ...