Pediatric hospitalists: report of a leadership conference

The Ambulatory Pediatric Association sponsored a meeting for academic pediatric hospitalists in November 2003. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss and to define roles. Pediatric hospital medicine is a rapidly growing field, with an estimated 800 to 1000 pediatric hospitalists currently practicing.

Mapping the technological landscape of SARS, MERS, and SARS-CoV-2 vaccines

There is an urgent need to develop a vaccine for prophylaxis of COVID-19 and for other future epidemics. This review describes patented vaccines for SARS and MERS-CoV and vaccines developed and approved for emergency use against the new coronavirus

SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Seroprevalence in Industry Workers in Split-Dalmatia and Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia

The study examined seroprevalence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) antibodies in the industry workers population sample. Serological testing for antibodies (Immunoglobulin G (IgG) and Immunoglobulins M (IGM) was conducted on 1494 factory employees living in Croatia.

COVID-19 new diagnostics development: novel detection methods for SARS-CoV-2 infection and considerations for their translation to routine use

COVID-19 has put the in-vitro-diagnostic community under an unprecedented spotlight, with a global requirement for accurate SARS-CoV-2 tests. This review outlines technological responses to this need and the analytical considerations required for their translation to routine use

Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in the West Bank region of Palestine: a cross-sectional seroepidemiological study

The study involved 1355 participants from 11 governorates and 1136 individuals visiting Palestinian medical laboratories between 1st May 2020 and 9th July 2020 for a routine check-up. The random sample of Palestinians living in the West Bank yielded 0% seroprevalence with 95% and an adjusted CI (0.001325% to 0.011566%) The study suggests that as of mid-June 2020, the outbreak in Palestine persists low and is inadequate to provide herd immunity.

COVID-19 seroprevalence in military police force, Southern Brazil

In this cross-section study, we evaluated COVID-19 seroprevalence in military police forces of 10 major cities in the Rio Grande does Sul, South of Brazil. The sample size consisted of 1,592 military workers (33.6% of the study population) They were mostly men (81.2%) and young (median 34 years old) Most had been asymptomatic (75.3%) during a pandemic.

Combined oropharyngeal/nasal swab is equivalent to nasopharyngeal sampling for SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic PCR

To address this pandemic broad testing with an easy, comfortable and reliable testing method is of utmost concern. Nasopharyngeal (NP) swab sampling is the reference method though hampered by international supply shortages. A strong correlation was found between the viral RNA loads of the paired swabs.

Detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in nasopharynx according to clinical phenotype of affected patients

duration of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in the upper respiratory tract is extremely variable. We investigated this relation in the northeastern Italian province of Udine. 39 483 RT-PCR tests were conducted on 23 778 individuals, and 974 individuals had a positive test result.

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