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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"COVID-19 (Disease)"”.
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Knowledge, attitudes and practices towards COVID-19 disease among community members of Collins Chabane Municipality in Limpopo Province
… 2 (SARS-CoV-2) also known as coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) is an acute respiratory disease that has received attention in the whole world and has spread throughout. The current study investigated the knowledge, attitudes and practices towards COVID-19 among community members of a …
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Virginia Wastewater Surveillance: Can SARS-CoV-2 Once-Weekly Sampling Predict Imminent Rises in Community COVID-19 Disease Burden?
… far more publicly – since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. WWS typically involves sample collection of community sewage at the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), where it is then analyzed for viral particle counts reflecting the entire WWTP's service area (i.e., sewershed). This dataset …
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MORPHOLOGICAL, MOLECULAR AND GENETICAL ASPECTS OF THE ORAL CAVITY IN COVID-19 DISEASE FOR DIAGNOSIS, SURVEILLANCE, AND TISSUE REGENERATION PURPOSES
… clinical investigations carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic, designed to describe various aspects of the involvement of the oral cavity in COVID-19’s pathology, diagnosis and course. The aims of the research project were to i) assess the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in the oral cavity through …
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Determinants of functional capacity and work ability post SARS-COV-2 infection in miners
… Insufficient data exists on the sequelae of COVID-19 and its impact on function and work ability among workers. The aim of this study was to investigate the determinants of functional capacity and work ability in miners following COVID-19 disease. Methods: This cross-sectional study recruited …
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Investigating clonal hematopoiesis in rhesus macaque and human
… for hematologic malignancies and cardiovascular diseases. However, predictive long-term preclinical animal models to recapitulate the spectrum of human CH are lacking. Such models would provide the opportunity to study parameters impacting the CH expansion and therapeutic options. CH expansions …
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COVID-19 pandemijos įtaka šeimos planavimui ir gimstamumui /
Justification: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected many areas of people's lives, certainly including family planning and reproductive health. Limited access to personal health care services, isolation at home, insecurity when planning a family, fear of pregnancy or childbirth – all these topics …
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Insights in Response to Statewide COVID-19 Sampling in Indiana
… coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) virus, the cause of COVID-19 disease, to understand the number of past and current infections as well as the prevalence of disease in the State of Indiana by conducting a survey to participants as well as administering testing for exposure to SARS-COV-2. The study …
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Spatial and Temporal Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in Sewer Network in Reno-Sparks Metropolitan Area
COVID-19 disease, caused by SARS-COV-2 virus, strained public health entities and communities, which faced unprecedented challenges in implementing clinical testing to monitor and inform public on the spread of the disease. In the early stages of the pandemic, researchers indicted that the virus is …
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Covid-19 (Coronavirus) Disease Diagnosis Using Fuzzy Inference System
… research study aims to diagnose the coronavirus (COVID-19) diseases symptoms using an Intelligent Systems approach. The COVID-19 epidemic is currently one of the most deadly diseases in the world. The pandemic has affected human life and global economy adversely at a large scale. It is spreading …
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Physics-Based Computational Modeling of Mechanics and Perfusion in COVID-19 Infected Lungs
… studies as well as global lung dynamics of the disease state of COVID-19 resemble acute respiratory distress syndrome but with some marked differences that have yet to be fully understood. Studying COVID-19 infected lung mechanics and perfusion provides a unique opportunity to advance our …
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COVID-19 and serious mental illness: Experience from a psychiatric hospital in Cape Town, South Africa
… and the risk factors associated with more severe disease and clinical outcomes of COVID-19 in patients with severe mental illness (SMI) admitted to a specialist psychiatric hospital in South Africa between 1 April 2020 and 30 September 2021. Setting: Valkenberg Hospital (VBH), a psychiatric …
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Collective Climate Action, Policy Learning and COVID-19: A Comparative Analysis of the Global Governance and Responses
… of policy learning and collective action. The COVID-19 pandemic and anthropogenic climate change pose critical challenges to human well-being as much as they depend on collective responses to contain them. The comparative analysis of governance structures in climate change and the COVID-19 …
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Assessment of the impact of awareness programs on the transmission dynamics of COVID-19
COVID-19, since its discovery in 2019, has posed a major health problem in the world. It is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and transmitted via infected respiratory droplets and contaminated surfaces. There is an urgent need to understand the transmission characteristics of the virus in response to …
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Lockdowns and Mask Mandates on Reducing COVID-19 Infections in Essential Worker Populations
… been a constant threat for mankind. Still, the COVID-19 disease resulted in the worst health crisis in more than a century. This suggests that more tools are needed to give adequate guidance for decision-making. Several epidemic models have been proposed to understand and forecast the dynamics …
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Bronchial gene expression associated with airway pre-malignancy and lung cancer subtypes
… Pulmonary Nodules (IPNs). Finally, as COVID-19 became a pandemic during my thesis work, I sought to utilize large-scale genomic data from multiple cohorts to investigate possible clinical risk factors related to SARS-CoV-2 entry and disease severity. My analysis showed that smoking …
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Comparison of sars-cov-2 rapid tests and formal serological testing on deceased persons in Cape Town Metro
The COVID-19 disease was declared a global pandemic in 2020 and since, it is unclear how many people have truly been infected. Additionally, there is a paucity of research into post mortem antibody testing. An antibody screening tool that is suitable for use in the mortuary setting would go a long …
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Requirements for Covid-19 swabbing
The declaration of Covid-19 as a global pandemic has warranted the urgent need to test infected individuals to prevent further virus spread. This has led to establishing Covid-19 testing centres within different areas in the community to promote early detection and isolation of cases. In the effort …
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Adaptive Immune Responses to Vaccination Against SARS-CoV-2 in Individuals with Immune Dysregulation
… of SARS-CoV-2 and the subsequent onset of the COVID-19 pandemic led to the rapid development of vaccines against the virus. Two of the major vaccines administered in the UK and elsewhere utilised novel mRNA technology to produce an immune response against the viral spike protein. The efficacy …
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Multi-scale and multi-group modeling techniques applied to Cholera and COVID-19
… Vibrio cholerae bacteria. The dynamics of the disease transmission are governed by human-human, environment-human, and within-human sub-dynamics. Specifically, the within-host dynamics incorporate virus and immune cell interaction with the vibrios. One model is presented to incorporate all …
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Physical and Social Threats Fortify Moral Judgements
… contextual factors, such as contamination and disease threats. Indeed, the role of disgust and disease threats on amplifying judgements of moral wrongdoing has been widely investigated. Likewise, there may be other forms of threat that similarly fortify condemnation across multiple domains of …
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