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Knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding COVID-19 skin manifestations among doctors working at Khartoum dermatology and venereology teaching Hospital, 2021

Sudan j. med. sci; 19 (1), 2024
Background: COVID-19 is a global pandemic caused by SARS_COV2. The symptoms of covid-19 include: fever, dyspnea, fatigue, a recent loss of smell and taste, sore throat, cough, and cutaneous lesions. In addition, some skin manifestations were reported to be associated with COVID-19. Methods: The study des...

COVID-19 in children aged 0-15 years seen at Amirou Boubacar Diallo National Hospital in Niamey, Niger, 2020-2021

Background: In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic affected all age groups. Although COVID-19 is generally benign in children, a diagnostic problem may arise due to clinical similarities with certain pathologies such as malaria, dengue fever and influenza. The objective of this study is to describe the epidemiol...

Challenges of contact tracing during COVID-19 pandemic response in a tertiary hospital in Northwestern Nigeria

kanem j. med. sci; 16 (1), 2023
Background: Contact tracing is a traditional pillar of infectious disease control, especially for illnesses involving direct transmission from person to person, such as COVID-19. Several challenges have arisen from COVID-19 contact tracing activities, particularly in low-resource settings. These include ...

Factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among health personnel in Yaounde, Cameroon

Health sci. dis; 24 (2 Suppl 1), 2023
Background. Health care personnel constitute a group at high risk of contracting COVID-19. However, the vaccination rate in this group in our context remains low. The objective of our study was to determine the factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among health care workers in Ya...

Value of baseline radiograph for COVID-19 infected patients

Ethiop. med. j. (Online); 61 (1), 2023
Introduction: A cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown origin was first reported in Wuhan China then the causative pathogen was identified and named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov2) and the associated disease was named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Chest radiograph has lo...

Pharmaceutical situation of the pharmacological treatment of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in Libya

By January 2020, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 has spread internationally to a pandemic that mainly targets the respiratory system. The relevant infectious disease has been identified as coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) by World Health Organization and declared as a global pandemic. ...

COVID-19 e Doença Cardiovascular: Uma Revisão da Literatura

A pandemia provocada pelo novo vírus, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS--CoV-2) iniciada na cidade de Wuhan, na China, alastrou-se rapidamente por todos os continentes, causando um enorme peso nos diferentes sistemas de saúde do mundo. Em África, apesar de eventualmente estar a ser...

SARS-CoV-2 em Grávidas e Puérperas no Início da Transmissão Comunitária na Cidade de Maputo
SARS-CoV-2 in Pregnant and Postpartum Women at the Beginning of Transmission Community in Maputo City

A COVID-19 é causada por coronavírus descri to pela primeira vez em 2019, designado SARS- -CoV-2,1 e afectou até ao momento milhões de pessoas em todo o mundo, resultando em milhares de óbitos.2 O quadro patológico pode cursar com síndrome respiratória aguda grave. Nos casos sin tomáticos, os do...