CONCLUSIONS: Key to pandemic preparedness is having a trained and supported workforce. This study showed how contact tracing training and field experience strengthened students' education in the health professions by sharpening interpersonal skills
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) diagnostic methods have a large potential to effectively detect SARS-CoV-2 with sensitivity and specificity nearing 100%, comparable to quantitative polymerase chain reaction. Yet
CONCLUSIONS: More systematic research with larger sample sizes is required to overcome sampling bias and include the health care professionals' perspective as well as help patients mobilize support by health care professionals and social network
CONCLUSION: The chlamydia screening rates in the target population have increased little from 2011-2019. The decrease in chlamydia screening rates between 2019 and 2020 could be related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the reduced use of health services
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Minority HIV Research Initiative (MARI) funded 8 investigators in 2016 to develop HIV prevention and treatment interventions in highly affected communities. We describe MARI studies who used community
CONCLUSIONS: Patients of the second wave (Alpha B.1.1.7. variant) reported significant higher proportion of psychophysical test abnormalities at 1-month post-infection than patients infected during the first wave (D614G virus).
The serology test of SARS-CoV-2 is one of the critical assays to make a diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection. The gold immunochromatography assay (GICA) is a common measure to test SARS-CoV-2 specific IgG and IgM. The sensitivity and specificity of the
CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of taste or/and smell dysfunction in patients with Omicron infections was 44%. Individuals with chemosensory dysfunction had significantly higher rates of various upper respiratory influenza-like symptoms, xerostomia and
CONCLUSIONS: In the new era of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, hybrid approach including surgery, balloon pulmonary angioplasty and medical treatment has been recommended. PEA is still the only curative treatment when the disease is