Showing papers in "Journal of Infection and Public Health in 2020"

TL;DR: A literature review of publicly available information to summarize knowledge about the pathogen and the current epidemic is presented in this article, where the causative agent, pathogenesis and immune responses, epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment and management of the disease, control and preventions strategies are all reviewed.

TL;DR: In this review, a rigorously focused on the impact of common morbidities in COVID-19 patients and recapitulated the management strategies with recent directions delineates the broader spectrum of comorbidities with COIDs patients.

TL;DR: There not enough evidence on the association between vitamin D levels and COVID-19 severity and mortality is found, and people who are at higher risk of vitamin D deficiency during this global pandemic should consider taking vitamin D supplements to maintain the circulating 25(OH)D in the optimal levels.

TL;DR: The first to explore MERS-CoV epidemic impact on medical students’ perception and determinants of their psychological distress during this outbreak found an increased self-report on hygienic habits, self-reported social avoidance, the generalized anxiety score and finally being female gander were found to be significant.

TL;DR: Research suggests remarkable genomic resemblance of 2019-nCoV with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) which has a history of a pandemic in 2002.

TL;DR: This article can be used as a state of the art at this critical moment to the globe for a promising alternative solutions related to the survival of people from coronavirus.

TL;DR: The psychological impact of COVID-19 on HCWs in comparison to the stress brought on by the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) epidemic in Saudi Arabia was assessed to alleviate their psychological stress and anxiety.

TL;DR: The response of Saudi Arabia to COVID-19 pandemic is reviewed and how did the experience learned from the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) epidemic since 2012 has helped the country to be better prepared for the current CO VID-19Pandemic.

TL;DR: This study proposes a detailed methodology for the evaluation and benchmarking of AI techniques used in all classification tasks of COVID-19 medical images as future directions, and presents the development of the MCDA approach for benchmarking AI classification techniques on the basis of the integrated analytic hierarchy process.

TL;DR: In this multi-center retrospective study, fever and cough were common symptoms of COVID-19 patients and special attention should be addressed toward asymptomatic carriers and workers in health care facilities as they play a key role in disease transmission.

TL;DR: Among the library of FDA approved antiviral drugs, the top three inhibitors Lopinavir-Ritonavir, Tipranavir and Raltegravir show the best molecular interaction with the main protease of SARS-CoV-2.

TL;DR: The forecasting results showed that the trend in Saudi Arabia will continue growing and may reach up to 7668 new cases per day and over 127,129 cumulative daily cases in a matter of four weeks if stringent precautionary and control measures are not implemented to limit the spread of COVID-19.

TL;DR: It is revealed that males showed a slight increase in the level of awareness compared to female participants, however, when it comes to the practice towards COVID-19, females showed slightly better practice than males, and public awareness must be improved to be prepared for epidemic and pandemic situations.

TL;DR: The study highlights how cancer diagnosis, cure process is assisted using machine learning with supervised, unsupervised and deep learning techniques.

TL;DR: The most comprehensively tested case reported to date confirmed that the vertical transmission of COVID is unlikely, but still, more evidence is needed.

TL;DR: Results revealed that types of Covid-9 surveillance includes routine surveillance, active, wildlife, syndromic, sentinel and sentinel-syndromic methods, and Laboratory and hospital-based surveillance are another important types.

TL;DR: Depression and anxiety are prevailing conditions among healthcare providers during the COVID-19 outbreak in Saudi Arabia, and more attention should be paid to the mental health of female, 30–39 age group and nursing staff.

TL;DR: A systematic review of the available literature on SARS-CoV-2 aims to help readers access the latest knowledge surrounding this new infectious disease and to provide a reference for future studies.

TL;DR: The novel coronavirus, Mers-CoV, is influenced by climate conditions with increasing incidence between April and August, and high temperature, high ultraviolet index, low wind speed, and low relative humidity are contributors to increased MERS- coV cases.

TL;DR: The infection status of HCWs during the outbreak of SARS, MERS and COVID-19 is summarized with in-depth discussion, hoping to provoke sufficient attention to the HCWs infection status by more people.

TL;DR: Hypocalcemia commonly occurred in severe COVID-19 patients and it was associated with poor outcome and it could predict the prognosis with an area under the ROC curve (AUC) of 0.001.

TL;DR: This review aims to provide the updated information about selection of specimens and availability of various diagnostic methods and their utility with current findings for the laboratory diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection to guide the healthcare professionals and government organizations to make strategy for establishing diagnostic facilities for Sars-Cov-2 infections.

TL;DR: A proposed secure and energy-efficient framework using Internet of Medical Things for e-healthcare (SEF-IoMT), which primary objective is to decrease the communication overhead and energy consumption between biosensors while transmitting the healthcare data on a convenient manner and also secures the medical data of the patients against unauthentic and malicious nodes to improve the network privacy and integrity.

TL;DR: A case of a 21-year-old man with very severe aplastic anaemia who received apheresis platelet transfusion from an individual who was subsequently diagnosed with COVID-19 is described, suggesting that blood donation may be an unexplored route of transmission.

TL;DR: The most common presenting symptoms at onset of illness were fever, cough, and shortness of breaths and all except two patients were treated with either chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine, while the three most prescribed antibiotics were ceftriaxone, azithromycin and piperacillin/tazobactam.

TL;DR: It is recommended that universities should proactively develop policies that support students, faculty, and staff affected by discriminatory behavior both during the current outbreak and in the future.

TL;DR: This case report presents the first illustrated case of pneumothorax and subcutaneous emphysema case in a patient with COVID-19, an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome virus coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

TL;DR: Self-reported medium and high levels of anxiety were present in 68.5% of HCWs in the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the urgent need to identify high-risk individuals to offer psychological support and provide up to date information on the pandemic.

TL;DR: A focused literature search of published reports from December 1, 2019, till August 20, 2020 was performed to explore the etiology, clinical presentations, and outcome of pediatric COVID-19 patients.

TL;DR: A review of recently published research articles on anti-COVID 19 management with their benefits and risk to facilitate decision making of the practitioners and policy makers concludes that clinical outcomes reported for antivirals are not consistent.