Browsing Technical documents and research evidence on COVID-19 by Title
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Thrombocytopenia and subcutaneous bleedings in a patient with Zika virus infection
(2016-06)A 54-year-old woman born in Suriname, who has been living in the Netherlands for the past 37 years, with an unremarkable medical history, presented to our clinic at the Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, ... -
Thrombocytopenia is associated with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infections: A meta-analysis
(2020-03-13)BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a novel infectious disease with lack of established laboratory markers available to evaluate illness severity. In this study, we investigate whether platelet count could ... -
Tilorone: a Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Invented in the USA and Commercialized in Russia and beyond
(2020-03-25)For the last 50 years we have known of a broad-spectrum agent tilorone dihydrochloride (Tilorone). This is a small-molecule orally bioavailable drug that was originally discovered in the USA and is currently used clinically ... -
Time Lags between Exanthematous Illness Attributed to Zika Virus, Guillain-Barré Syndrome, and Microcephaly, Salvador, Brazil
(2016)Zika virus infection emerged as a public health emergency after increasing evidence for its association with neurologic disorders and congenital malformations. In Salvador, Brazil, outbreaks of acute exanthematous illness ... -
Traditional Chinese Medicine and herbal medicine for COVID-19 (multiple reviews)
(2020-09-28)What is this? Traditional Chinese medicine and other forms of herbal medicine have been suggested as treatments for COVID-19 patients. Several potentially relevant systematic reviews have been done and the findings are ... -
Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Treatment of Patients Infected with 2019-New Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2): A Review and Perspective
(2020-03-15)Currently, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2, formerly known as 2019-nCoV, the causative pathogen of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)) has rapidly spread across China and around the world, ... -
Traditional Chinese Medicine Is a Resource for Drug Discovery Against 2019 Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)
(2020-02-19)This work highlights the prospect of computer-aided, structurebased traditional Chinese medicine drug discovery for the novel coronavirus pneumonia. These approaches helped to narrow down the large libraries of compounds ... -
Training and Fit Testing of Health Care Personnel for Reusable Elastomeric Half-Mask Respirators Compared With Disposable N95 Respirators
(2020-03-25)The demand for disposable respiratory protective devices needed to protect health care personnel may exceed supply during large outbreaks of respiratory infectious diseases. Concerns are growing over global shortages of ... -
Transmission Dynamics of Zika Virus in Island Populations: A Modelling Analysis of the 2013-14 French Polynesia Outbreak
(2016-06)Between October 2013 and April 2014, more than 30,000 cases of Zika virus (ZIKV) disease were estimated to have attended healthcare facilities in French Polynesia. ZIKV has also been reported in Africa and Asia, and in ... -
Transmission of COVID-19 to Health Care Personnel During Exposures to a Hospitalized Patient — Solano County, California, February 2020
(2020-04-14)What is already known about this topic? Health care personnel (HCP) are at heightened risk of acquiring COVID-19 infection, but limited information exists about transmission in health care settings. What is added by this ... -
Transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2 through breast milk and breastfeeding: a living systematic review
(2020-08-28)The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) is caused by infection with a novel coronavirus strain, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2). At present, there is limited information on ... -
Transmission of Zika Virus Through Sexual Contact with Travelers to Areas of Ongoing Transmission - Continental United States, 2016
(2016-06)Zika virus is a flavivirus closely related to dengue, West Nile, and yellow fever viruses. Although spread is primarily by Aedes species mosquitoes, two instances of sexual transmission of Zika virus have been reported ... -
Transmission potential of Zika virus infection in the South Pacific
(2016-06)Objectives Zika virus has spread internationally through countries in the South Pacific and Americas. The present study aimed to estimate the basic reproduction number, R0, of Zika virus infection as a measurement of the ... -
Travel‐related control measures to contain the COVID‐19 pandemic: a rapid review
(2020-09-16)BackgroundIn: In late 2019, first cases of coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, were reported inWuhan, China. Subsequently COVID-19 spread rapidly around the world. To contain ... -
Treatment of 5 Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19 With Convalescent Plasma
(2020-03-27)Importance: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic with no specific therapeutic agents and substantial mortality. It is critical to find new treatments. Objective: To determine whether convalescent plasma ... -
Treatment of patients with non-severe and severe COVID-19: an evidence-based guideline
(2020)On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 viral disease a pandemic. The worldwide spread of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) represents a profound threat to human health. Patients with ...