Browse Items (1475 total)

• An observational cohort study of triage for critical care provision during pandemic influenza: ‘clipboard physicians’ or ‘evidenced based medicine’?

  Tags Critical Care, Ethics, Flu, Influenza, Pandemic, R-Res&Pub, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Guest, T., G. Tantam, N. Donlin, K. Tantam, H. McMillan, and A. Tillyard.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2009-10-09
  Description: We assessed the impact of a United Kingdom government‐recommended triage process, designed to guide the decision to admit patients to intensive care during an influenza pandemic, on patients in a teaching hospital intensive care unit.

• Temporal profiles of viral load in posterior oropharyngeal saliva samples and serum antibody responses during infection by SARS-CoV-2: an observational cohort study

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Epidemiology, Laboratory Testing, R-Res&Pub, SARS-CoV-2
  Creator: To, Kelvin Kai-Wang, Owen Tak-Yin Tsang, Wai-Shing Leung, Anthony Raymond Tam, Tak-Chiu Wu, David Christopher Lung, Cyril Chik-Yan Yip, Jian-Piao Cai, Jacky Man-Chun Chan, Thomas Shiu-Hong Chik, Daphne Pui-Ling Lau, Chris Yau-Chung Choi, Lin-Lei…
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-23
  Description: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) causes severe community and nosocomial outbreaks.

• SARS-CoV-2: virus dynamics and host response

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, R-Res&Pub, Respiratory Pathogen, SARS-CoV-2, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Chen, Yu, and Lanjuan Li.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-23
  Description: Since December, 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected more than 100 000 patients globally.

• Viral dynamics in mild and severe cases of COVID-19

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Epidemiology, R-Res&Pub, Virology
  Creator: Liu, Yang, Li-Meng Yan, Lagen Wan, Tian-Xin Xiang, Aiping Le, Jia-Ming Liu, Malik Peiris, Leo L. M. Poon, and Wei Zhang.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-19
  Description: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a new pandemic disease. We previously reported that the viral load of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) peaks within the first week of disease onset.

• Estimation of COVID-19 outbreak size in Italy

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Airborne Transmission, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Droplet Transmission, Epidemic, Pandemic, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Tuite, Ashleigh R., Victoria Ng, Erin Rees, and David Fisman.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-19
  Description: Italy is currently experiencing an epidemic of COVID-19 which emerged in the Lombardy region.

• Safety, reactogenicity, and immunogenicity of a chimpanzee adenovirus vectored Ebola vaccine in children in Africa: a randomised, observer-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial

  Tags Ebola, Pediatrics, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, Therapeutics, Vaccine Study, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Tapia, Milagritos D., Samba O. Sow, Khardiata D. Mbaye, Aliou Thiongane, Birahim P. Ndiaye, Cheikh T. Ndour, Souleymane Mboup, Babajide Keshinro, Thompson N. Kinge, Guy Vernet, Jean Joel Bigna, Stephen Oguche, Kwadwo A. Koram, Kwaku P. Asante,…
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-19
  Description: During the large 2013–16 Ebola virus outbreak caused by the Zaire Ebola virus, about 20% of cases were reported in children. This study is the first, to our knowledge, to evaluate an Ebola vaccine in children younger than 6 years.

• Safety, reactogenicity, and immunogenicity of a chimpanzee adenovirus vectored Ebola vaccine in adults in Africa: a randomised, observer-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial

  Tags Ebola, R-Res&Pub, Therapeutics, Vaccine Study, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Tapia, Milagritos D., Samba O. Sow, Birahim P. Ndiaye, Khardiata D. Mbaye, Aliou Thiongane, Cheikh T. Ndour, Souleymane Mboup, Julie A. Ake, Babajide Keshinro, Gideon A. Akintunde, Thompson N. Kinge, Guy Vernet, Jean Joel Bigna, Stephen Oguche,…
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-19
  Description: The 2014 Zaire Ebola virus disease epidemic accelerated vaccine development for the virus.

• Chimpanzee adenovirus type 3 vectored Ebola vaccine: expanding the field

  Tags Ebola, R-Res&Pub, Therapeutics, Vaccine Study, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Bavari, Sina, and Patrick L. Iversen.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-19
  Description: Two phase 2 randomised clinical trials evaluating ChAd3-EBO-Z administered to healthy adults in Cameroon, Mali, Nigeria, and Senegal and healthy children in Mali and Senegal are reported by Milagritos Tapia and colleagues in The Lancet Infectious…

• SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load in Upper Respiratory Specimens of Infected Patients

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Epidemiology, R-Res&Pub, SARS-CoV-2
  Creator: Zou, Lirong, Feng Ruan, Mingxing Huang, Lijun Liang, Huitao Huang, Zhongsi Hong, Jianxiang Yu, Min Kang, Yingchao Song, Jinyu Xia, Qianfang Guo, Tie Song, Jianfeng He, Hui-Ling Yen, Malik Peiris, and Jie Wu.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-19
  Description: The 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic, which was first reported in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization, may progress to a pandemic…

• Analysis of COVID-19 infection spread in Japan based on stochastic transition model

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Airborne Transmission, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Droplet Transmission, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Karako, Kenji, Peipei Song, Yu Chen, and Wei Tang.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-18
  Description: To assess the effectiveness of response strategies of avoiding large gatherings or crowded areas and to predict the spread of COVID-19 infections in Japan, we developed a stochastic transmission model by extending the Susceptible-Infected-Removed…