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MOSTLY MICROBES AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES
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Vietnam says it has detected a more contagious hybrid of variants first seen in India and Britain
#Vietnam #COVID19 #coronavirus #SARSCoV2 Vietnam has discovered a new variant of the coronavirus that the country’s health minister said...
David Ojcius
May 29, 20212 min read
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Researchers discover drug that blocks multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants in mice
#COVID19 #coronavirus #SARSCoV2 #immunology #innateimmunity The drug diABZI—which activates the body's innate immune response—was highly...
David Ojcius
May 29, 20212 min read
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Immunoinformatics for predicting potential B-cell and T-cell epitopes for Covid vaccines
#COVID19 #COVIDvaccine #coronavirus #vaccines #SARSCoV2 #immunology Background The increase in global mortality rates from SARS-COV2...
David Ojcius
May 28, 20211 min read
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SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans
#COVID19 #coronavirus #SARSCoV2 #immunology Long-lived bone marrow plasma cells (BMPCs) are a persistent and essential source of...
David Ojcius
May 26, 20211 min read
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Immunity to the Coronavirus May Persist for Years, According to New Studies
#coronavirus #COVIDvaccine #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 Memory B cells persist for at least a year, and maybe longer, in people who were infected...
David Ojcius
May 26, 20212 min read
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How CD4+ T cells respond to SARS-CoV-2 in COVID-19 recovered patients
#SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #immunology #coronavirus An international team of researchers from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine,...
David Ojcius
May 26, 20212 min read
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Fighting COVID-19: A quick review of diagnoses, therapies, and vaccines
#COVID19 #coronavirus #vaccine #vaccines #COVIDvaccines #SARSCoV2 The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by a novel...
David Ojcius
May 25, 20212 min read
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COVID-19: The first documented coronavirus pandemic in history
#COVID19 #coronavirus #SARSCoV2 The novel human coronavirus disease COVID-19 has become the fifth documented pandemic since the 1918 flu...
David Ojcius
May 23, 20211 min read
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Development of multi-epitope peptide-based vaccines against SARS-CoV-2
#SARSCoV2 #coronavirus #COVID19 #COVIDvaccine Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused a pandemic...
David Ojcius
May 23, 20211 min read
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Mix-and-match COVID vaccines trigger potent immune response
Preliminary results from a trial of more than 600 people are the first to show the benefits of combining different #COVID19 vaccines....
David Ojcius
May 21, 20211 min read
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Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission
Face masks effectively limit the probability of #SARSCoV2 transmission. Masks are particularly effective in combination with other...
David Ojcius
May 21, 20211 min read
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Just 2% of SARS-CoV-2−positive individuals carry 90% of the virus circulating in communities
Analyzing data from the Fall 2020 #COVID19 pandemic response at a university in Colorado, US, researchers conclude that just 2% of...
David Ojcius
May 16, 20211 min read
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Mice with severe COVID symptoms could speed vaccine effort
Scientists have developed a strain of #SARSCoV2 #coronavirus that causes severe #COVID19 symptoms in mice. The model could accelerate...
David Ojcius
May 12, 20211 min read
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The myriad ways sewage surveillance is helping fight COVID around the world
#wastewater #water #SARSCoV2 #covid19 #coronavirus #sewage From the subarctic community of Yellowknife, Canada, to the subtropical city...
David Ojcius
May 10, 20211 min read
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COVID-19: The first documented coronavirus pandemic in history
#COVID19 #coronavirus #SARSCoV2 The novel human coronavirus disease COVID-19 has become the fifth documented pandemic since the 1918 flu...
David Ojcius
May 8, 20211 min read
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Fighting COVID19: A quick review of diagnoses, therapies, and vaccines
The #coronavirus disease 2019 (#COVID19) pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus, #SARSCoV2, has infected more than 22 million individuals...
David Ojcius
May 8, 20211 min read
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COVID-19 Is a Vascular Disease: Coronavirus’ Spike Protein Attacks Cells of the Vascular System
#COVID19 #coronavirus #SARSCoV2 Scientists have known for a while that SARS-CoV-2’s distinctive “spike” proteins help the virus infect...
David Ojcius
May 2, 20211 min read
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These viruses are the most likely to trigger the next pandemic, according to scientists
The novel #coronavirus #SARSCoV2 is the latest pathogen to "spill over" from animals to people, but hundreds of thousands of other...
David Ojcius
Apr 10, 20211 min read
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Realistic considerations for comparison between SARS-CoV-2 molecular diagnostic assays
Letter to the editor - We read with great interest the article by You et al 2020 [1] in which excellent agreement between two #SARSCoV2...
David Ojcius
Mar 31, 20212 min read
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The novel Coronavirus Infects Cells in the Mouth – Saliva May Play Role in COVID19 transmission
An international team of scientists has found evidence that #SARSCoV2, the #coronavirus that causes #COVID19, infects cells in the mouth....
David Ojcius
Mar 26, 20211 min read
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