Bacterial but no SARS-CoV-2 contamination after terminal disinfection of tertiary care intensive care units treating COVID-19 patients
In intensive care units (ICUs) treating patients with Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Invasive ventilation poses a high risk for aerosol and drop...
The effect of anticancer treatment on cancer patients with COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Some anticancer treatments have been reported to have negative influences on COVID-19-infected patients. Results: There were no significant difference...
Clinical validation of quantitative SARS-CoV-2 antigen assays to estimate SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in nasopharyngeal swabs
Expansion of testing capacity for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is an important issue. Recently, a sensitive quantitati...
A case series of children and young people admitted to a tertiary care hospital in Germany with COVID-19
Data on the course of disease and outcome in children with different comorbidities is still limited. One patient was admitted a second time with COVID...
Effect of hydroxychloroquine with or without azithromycin on the mortality of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without azithromycin have been widely promoted to treat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) The aim of this...
Therapeutic strategies for severe COVID-19: a position paper from the Italian Society of Infectious and Tropical Diseases (SIMIT)
Standard treatment for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is not well defined because the evidence, either from randomized or observational studies,...
Convalescent plasma may be a possible treatment for COVID-19: A systematic review
Convalescent plasma(CP) immunotherapy was an effective method for fighting against similar viral infections such as SARS-CoV, and MERS- coV. There is...
Homozygosity for rs17775810 Minor Allele Associated With Reduced Mortality of COVID-19 in the UK Biobank Cohort
Fluvoxamine strongly binds to the sigma-1 receptor (S1R) that regulates inflammation by inhibiting the production of cytokines, believed to be respons...