Specificity and positive predictive value of SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid amplification testing in a low-prevalence setting

Cities around the U.S. have seen a rise in violence in recent years. Some communities have tried to put an end to the problem by going after the culpr...

Colorectal Cancer Surgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Single Center Experience

We performed colorectal cancer elective surgery on 25 patients. A notable re-allocation of healthcare resources and specific clinical and. organizatio...

Liquid-based cytological and immunohistochemical study of nasopharyngeal swab from persons under investigation for SARS-CoV-2 infection

Hospitality is coming to you if you're always going to go from the hospital to the grocery store, but you have to bring it back. You can't go from 0 t...

Stem cell therapy in COVID-19: Pooled evidence from SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and ARDS: A systematic review

This systematic review has been framed by pooling the available data on the use of stem cells in SARS-CoV-2. The observations of this systematic revie...

Data science in unveiling COVID-19 pathogenesis and diagnosis: evolutionary origin to drug repurposing

SARS-CoV-2, also known as COVID-19, has attracted worldwide attention. Data science is playing a pivotal role in in silico analysis to gain insights i...

Safety of hydroxychloroquine for treatment or prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection: A rapid systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials

Hydroxychloroquine has been extensively studied for the treatment and prevention of coronavirus diseases 2019 (COVID-19) from the start of the pandemi...

Efficacy of therapeutic plasma exchange in the treatment of Penn class 3 and 4 cytokine release syndrome complicating COVID-19

Cytokine release syndrome (CRS) is a potentially severe complication of COVID-19 most commonly resulting in respiratory failure. The study was designe...

Airborne spread of infectious SARS-CoV-Moving forward using lessons from SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV

An increasing body of data reports the detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the air. This does not correlate to the presence of infectious viruses, thus not...

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