The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on community respiratory virus activity

EJ Chow, TM Uyeki, HY Chu - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) caused
substantial global morbidity and deaths, leading governments to turn to non-pharmaceutical …

Bacterial co‐infections with SARS‐CoV‐2

R Mirzaei, P Goodarzi, M Asadi, A Soltani… - IUBMB …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The pandemic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19), caused by Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), has affected millions of people worldwide. To …

Changes in the incidence of invasive disease due to Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Neisseria meningitidis during the COVID-19 pandemic …

AB Brueggemann, MJJ van Rensburg… - The Lancet Digital …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Summary Background Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Neisseria
meningitidis, which are typically transmitted via respiratory droplets, are leading causes of …

Respiratory viral infection-induced microbiome alterations and secondary bacterial pneumonia

S Hanada, M Pirzadeh, KY Carver… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Influenza and other respiratory viral infections are the most common type of acute respiratory
infection. Viral infections predispose patients to secondary bacterial infections, which often …

Epidemiology of respiratory infections during the COVID-19 pandemic

N Principi, G Autore, G Ramundo, S Esposito - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
To face the COVID-19 outbreak, a wide range of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs)
aimed at limiting the spread of the virus in communities, such as mask-wearing, hand …

Viral–bacterial co-infections in the respiratory tract

LO Bakaletz - Current opinion in microbiology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Viruses predispose to secondary bacterial infection throughout the respiratory
tract.•Viral damage to airway epithelium and aberrant inflammatory responses play key …

Inflammation induced by influenza virus impairs human innate immune control of pneumococcus

SP Jochems, F Marcon, BF Carniel, M Holloway… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Colonization of the upper respiratory tract by pneumococcus is important both as a
determinant of disease and for transmission into the population. The immunological …

Direct interactions with influenza promote bacterial adherence during respiratory infections

HM Rowe, VA Meliopoulos, A Iverson, P Bomme… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Epidemiological observations and animal models have long shown synergy between
influenza virus infections and bacterial infections. Influenza virus infection leads to an …

The microbiome of the nose—friend or foe?

S Dimitri-Pinheiro, R Soares, P Barata - Allergy & rhinology, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Recently, multiple studies regarding the human microbiota and its role on the development
of disease have emerged. Current research suggests that the nasal cavity is a major …