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Survival in pediatric patients with cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic: scoping systematic review

Abstract Background: Coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 has currently affected 8,015,502 million people worldwide with global mortality around 5%. Information in pediatric cancer patients is still limited, but it is emerging day by day. The objective of this scoping review was to analyze the available data ...

COVID-19 pandemic: challenges ahead

Abstract Since December 2019, health systems worldwide have faced the pandemic caused by the new severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The pandemic began in China and has spread throughout the world. This new coronavirus has a high transmission capacity and elevated lethality in people over 60...

SARS-CoV-2: previous coronaviruses, immune response, and development of vaccines

Abstract Since the emergence of the new severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in China at the end of 2019, when its characteristics were practically unknown, one aspect was evident: its high contagion rate. This high infection rate resulted in the spread of the virus in China, Euro...

Measles outbreak during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico

Abstract Measles is an exanthematous disease caused by a virus of the Morbillivirus genus. On February 23, 2020, the exanthema began in the first confirmed case of measles this year. At the same time, on February 28, 2020, the first case of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was confirmed. Up to June...

Increase in COVID-19 inpatient survival following detection of Thromboembolic and Cytokine storm risk from the point of admission to hospital by a near real time Traffic-light System (TraCe-Tic)

Braz. j. infect. dis; 24 (5), 2020
Abstract Introduction Our goal was to evaluate if traffic-light driven personalized care for COVID-19 was associated with improved survival in acute hospital settings. Methods Discharge outcomes were evaluated before and after prospective implementation of a real-time dashboard with feedback to ward-ba...

Triage tool for suspected COVID-19 patients in the emergency room: AIFELL score

Braz. j. infect. dis; 24 (5), 2020
Abstract Clinical prediction scores support the assessment of patients in the emergency setting to determine the need for further diagnostic and therapeutic steps. During the current COVID-19 pandemic, physicians in emergency rooms (ER) of many hospitals have a considerably higher patient load and need t...

COVID-19 in health care workers in a university hospital during the quarantine in São Paulo city

Braz. j. infect. dis; 24 (5), 2020
Abstract Health care workers (HCW) are at a higher risk of being infected in their workplace. Out of a total of 466 HCW of Hospital São Paulo with influenza-like illnesses or any clinical suspicion of COVID-19 were tested for COVID-19 by RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 169 (36%) turned out positive and were analy...

COVID-19 pneumonia in an HIV-positive woman on antiretroviral therapy and undetectable viral load in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Braz. j. infect. dis; 24 (5), 2020
Abstract COVID-19 pandemic has been a problem worldwide. It is important to identify people at risk of progressing to severe complications and to investigate if some existing antivirals could have any action against SARS-CoV-2. In this context, HIV-infected individuals and antiretroviral drugs might be i...

Impact of lockdown on bed occupancy rate in a referral hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in northeast Brazil

Braz. j. infect. dis; 24 (5), 2020
Abstract Coronaviruses are known to be responsible for infections in humans since the 1960s and have accounted for epidemics in recent human history. More recently, in 2019, a disease caused by a new coronavirus appeared in China, in the province of Wuhan, with a characteristic of greater infectivity, ca...