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As infectious diseases such as SARS, Monkeypox, Polio, HIV, and Ebola travel the globe and garner media attention, Parasites Without Borders staff are curating resources in a timely, ongoing basis. We believe the information posted here is worthy of further examination by the science and medical communities. Our primary goal remains to bring the latest medical and biological information to the forefront for researchers and practicing physicians.

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May 19, 2022

Gastrointestinal symptoms and fecal shedding of SARS-CoV-2 RNA suggest prolonged gastrointestinal infection | The Importance of Understanding the Stages of COVID-19 in Treatment and Trials | Supratherapeutic tacrolimus concentrations with Nirmatrelvir/ritonavir in solid organ transplant recipients requiring hospitalization: A case series using rifampin for | Inflammasome activation in infected macrophages drives COVID-19 pathology | Post-acute COVID-19 is characterized by gut viral antigen persistence in inflammatory bowel diseases | Limited cross-variant immunity from SARS-CoV-2 Omicron without vaccination
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May 12, 2022

Effect of Early Treatment with Ivermectin among Patients with Covid-19 | Procalcitonin Is Not a Reliable Biomarker of Bacterial Coinfection in People With Coronavirus Disease 2019 Undergoing Microbiological Investigation at the Time of Hospital Admission | Children and COVID-19: State Date Report | Evaluation of mRNA-1273 Covid-19 Vaccine in Children 6 to 11 Years of Age | FDA Limits Use of Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine to Certain Individuals | Recall of B cell memory depends on relative locations of prime and boost immunization | Tixagevimab/Cilgavimab for Treatment of Hospitalised COVID-19 Patients: A Randomised, Double-Blind, Phase 3 Trial
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May 5, 2022

FDA Updates on Paxlovid for Health Care Providers | SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant is as Deadly as Previous Waves After Adjusting for Vaccinations, Demographics, and Comorbidities | Comparative effectiveness over time of the mRNA-1273 (Moderna) vaccine and the BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) vaccine

April 30, 2022

Children and COVID-19: State Date Report | Clinical characteristics with inflammation profiling of long COVID and association with 1-year recovery following hospitalization in the UK: a prospective observational study | Moderna files for authorization of Its COVID-19 Vaccine in young children six months to under six years of age | Public health impact of covid-19 vaccines in the US: observational study | FDA approves first COVID-19 Treatment for Young Children | Veru Announces Presentation of Phase 2 Data of Sabizabulin for the Treatment of Hospitalized Severe COVID-19 Patients at High Risk for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
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April 23, 2022

COVID-19 Mortality and Vaccine Coverage — Hong Kong Special Administrative Region | Hospitalizations of Children Aged 5–11 Years with confirmed COVID | SARS-CoV-2 co-infection with influenza viruses, respiratory syncytial virus, or adenoviruses | Pfizer and BioNTech Announce Data Demonstrating High Immune Response Following a Booster Dose of their COVID-19 Vaccine in Children | Safety, Immunogenicity and Antibody Persistence of a Bivalent Beta-Containing Booster Vaccine | Low-dose bivalent mRNA vaccine is highly effective against different SARS-CoV-2 variants in a transgenic mouse model | Intramuscular AZD7442 for Prevention of Covid-19
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April 16, 2022

Children and COVID-19: State Date Report | Symptom prevalence, duration, and risk of hospital admission in individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 during periods of omicron and delta variant dominance | Infectious viral load in unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals infected with ancestral, Delta or Omicron SARS-CoV-2 | Myopericarditis following COVID-19 vaccination and non-COVID-19 vaccination | Fluvoxamine for Outpatient Management of COVID-19 to Prevent Hospitalization | Veru’s Novel COVID-19 Drug Candidate Reduces Deaths in Hospitalized Patients in Interim Analysis... | Comparison of Rapid Antigen Tests′ | SARS-CoV-2 infection in Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis of standardised seroprevalence studies

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