[HTML][HTML] Determining the timing of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) epidemics: a systematic review, 2016 to 2021; method categorisation and identification of …

L Staadegaard, M Dückers, J van Summeren… - …, 2024 - eurosurveillance.org
Background There is currently no standardised approach to estimate respiratory syncytial
virus (RSV) epidemics' timing (or seasonality), a critical information for their effective …

Impact of COVID-19 on life expectancy at birth in India: a decomposition analysis

S Yadav, PK Yadav, N Yadav - BMC Public Health, 2021 - Springer
Background Quantifying excess deaths and their impact on life expectancy at birth (e 0)
provide a more comprehensive understanding of the burden of coronavirus disease of 2019 …

Association between population-level factors and household secondary attack rate of SARS-CoV-2: a systematic review and meta-analysis

C Wang, X Huang, EHY Lau… - Open Forum …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Accurate estimation of household secondary attack rate (SAR) is crucial to
understand the transmissibility of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS …

Comparison of the clinical performance and usefulness of five SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests

M Wakita, M Idei, K Saito, Y Horiuchi, K Yamatani… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
We examined the usefulness of five COVID-19 antibody detection tests using 114 serum
samples at various time points from 34 Japanese COVID-19 patients. We examined Elecsys …

Disparities in SARS-CoV-2 infection by race, ethnicity, language, and social vulnerability: evidence from a citywide seroprevalence study in Massachusetts, USA

WR Matias, IR Fulcher, SM Sauer, CP Nolan… - Journal of Racial and …, 2024 - Springer
Objectives Uncovering and addressing disparities in infectious disease outbreaks require a
rapid, methodical understanding of local epidemiology. We conducted a seroprevalence …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 infection among educational staff in Berlin, Germany, June to December 2020

S Kindzierski, W van Loon, S Theuring… - …, 2022 - eurosurveillance.org
Background SARS-CoV-2 infections in preschool and school settings potentially bear
occupational risks to educational staff. Aim We aimed to assess the prevalence of SARS …

COVID-19 response efforts of Washington State public health laboratory: lessons learned

HP McLaughlin, BC Hiatt, D Russell… - … Journal of Public …, 2021 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Laboratory diagnostics play an essential role in pandemic preparedness. In January 2020,
the first US case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Washington State. At the same time, the …

Effect of SARS-CoV-2 digital droplet RT-PCR assay sensitivity on COVID-19 wastewater based epidemiology

S Kim, MK Wolfe, CS Criddle, DH Duong… - PLoS Water, 2022 - journals.plos.org
We developed and implemented a framework for examining how molecular assay sensitivity
for a viral RNA genome target affects its utility for wastewater-based epidemiology. We …

Coronavirus disease-2019 pneumonia: clinical manifestations

H Sharifi, J Hsu - Clinics in Chest Medicine, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia has diverse clinical manifestations,
which have shifted throughout the pandemic. Formal classifications include presymptomatic …

COVID-19 Pneumonia: Clinical Manifestations

H Sharifi, J Hsu - Clinics in Chest Medicine, 2022 - europepmc.org
COVID-19 pneumonia has diverse clinical manifestations, which have shifted over the
course of the pandemic. Formal classifications include presymptomatic infection and mild …