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Impact of New Coronavirus Epidemics on HIV-Infected Patients
(AIDS Reviews, 2020)
Since the first report of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan (China) at the end of 2019 due to a new airborne highly transmissible coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2, large-scale spreading has rapidly become a global ...
COVID-19 Comes 40 Years After AIDS - Any Lesson?
(AIDS Reviews, 2020-06)
The pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has hit health-care systems and societies in an unprecedented manner. In 1981, the first cases of AIDS were reported and wide diagnostic ...
HTLV-1 infection and health outcomes
(The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2020-04)
The meta-analysis published by Gill Schierhout and colleagues1 reported an increased relative risk of premature death in individuals infected with HTLV-1 compared with individuals not infected with HTLV-1 (RR 1·57, 95% CI ...
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(AIDS Reviews, 2020)
For the past 5 years, all adults presenting with > 10-fold liver enzyme elevations at the emergency department of the largest hospital in Barcelona were tested for markers of acute viral hepatitis. Out of all positive ...
Why such excess of mortality for COVID-19 in Spain?
(Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease, 2020-06)
The current global crisis produced by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is unprecedented. Even the 1918 influenza pandemic (Spanish flu) did not halt the planet so abruptly and deeply as it ran during World War I.
Rapid antigen Testing and Mask Wearing While Waiting for COVID-19 Vaccines
(AIDS reviews, 2020)
After the rapid surge of COVID-19 in Europe during the spring of 2020, implementation of lockdowns succeeded in drastically reduce the number of cases and deaths within 2-3 months. However, it came at a heavy socioeconomic ...
Tough requirements for new antiretroviral drugs
(The Lancet HIV, 2020-03)
Medical and social attention to HIV infection has declined globally and is increasingly focused on developing regions, where the epidemic is still largely uncontrolled. In North America and western Europe, AIDS is rarely ...
Keeping alive enterprises while embracing unprecedented COVID-19 restrictions
(Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease, 2020-04)
COVID-19 is rapidly expanding globally, with more than 1,800,000 cases and 105,000 deaths to date (April 11, 2020) (www.worldometers.info). The WHO upgrade to pandemic, the emergency declaration in the United States, and ...
Advances in hepatitis B therapeutics
(Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease, 2020-10)
Despite the availability of both effective preventive vaccines and oral antivirals, over 250 million people are chronically infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Globally, chronic hepatitis B is the leading cause of ...
HTLV testing of solid organ transplant donors
(Clinical Transplantation, 2019)
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