PubMed COVID-19 Clinical Care
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Vulnerability of pangolin SARS-CoV-2 lineage assignment to adversarial attack
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Pangolin is the most popular tool for SARS-CoV-2 lineage assignment. During COVID-19, healthcare professionals and policymakers required accurate and timely lineage assignment of SARS-CoV-2 genomes for pandemic response. Therefore, tools such as
Validation of public stigma of tuberculosis scale during the COVID-19 pandemic using the Rasch model
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CONCLUSIONS: The scale developed to measure the public stigma surrounding TB during the COVID-19 pandemic is valid and reliable to measure stigma surrounding TB in the community, especially the pandemic. Further research is needed to apply the scale
Vaccine development against tuberculosis before and after Covid-19
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Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has not only shaped awareness of the impact of infectious diseases on global health. It has also provided instructive lessons for better prevention strategies against new and current infectious diseases of major
Validation of a German-language modified Rankin Scale structured telephone interview at 3 months in a real-life stroke cohort
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CONCLUSIONS: Our study validates the use of the German-language structured telephone interview as a reliable instrument for the use in clinical trials. We encourage others to utilize the questionnaire. It is available as an Appendix (Additional file
Vision Correction Habits After COVID-19 Onset in Spectacle and Contact Lens Wearers
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CONCLUSIONS: After pandemic onset, hours per day of spectacle wear increased, and days per week of contact lens wear decreased. Increases in hourly spectacle wear were associated with increased screen time, whereas increased daily contact lens wear
Venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for COVID-19 and influenza H1N1 associated acute respiratory distress syndrome: A comparative cohort study in China
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CONCLUSIONS: Compared with H1N1 influenza patients, COVID-19 patients were older and presented with increased PaCO(2) and VR values before ECMO initiation. The differences between ARDS patients with COVID-19 and influenza on VV-ECMO detailed herein
Variability in changes in physician outpatient antibiotic prescribing from 2019 to 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada
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CONCLUSIONS: Antibiotic prescribing changed throughout the COVID-19 pandemic with overall decreases in antibiotic initiation, broad-spectrum agents, and prolonged antibiotic courses with inter-physician variability. These findings present
Variant rs4986790 of TLR4 affects the signaling and induces cell dysfunction in severe COVID-19 patients
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OBJECTIVES: We investigated the expression of TLR-4 on the cell surface of innate and adaptive cells from patients with COVID-19 carrying the rs4986790 GG genotype in the TLR4 gene and the functional profile of these cells.
