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Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) . The disease was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province, and has since spread globally, resulting in the ongoing
Coronaviruses (CoV) are positive-stranded single-stranded RNA viruses that infect a wide range of hosts. The new coronavirus outbreak has led to a public health emergency of international concern, putting all health organizations on high alert.
The accelerated spread pushed physicians to try a
On 12/06/2020 worldwide, COVID-19 affected 7 273 958 confirmed cases with 413 372 deaths, 97 894 confirmed in Canada with 8 048 deaths, 53 666 confirmed cases in Quebec with 5 148 deaths, 4 637 confirmed cases with 101 deaths in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where the situation is disastrous:
As demonstrated by a study conducted by Ai et al., including 1014 suspect COVID-19 cases who underwent multiple RT-PCR testing and chest-CT, overall 88% of patients had positive CT scans while RT-PCR positivity was found only in 59% of all cases. Also, as reported by Yang et al, the total positive
It has been reported that nearly half of the patients who are hospitalized for Covid-19 pneumonia have on admission old age or comorbidities.
In particular, hypertension was present in 30% of the cases, diabetes in 19%, coronary heart disease in 8% and chronic obstructive lung disease in 3% of the
CASE PRESENTATION Case 1 An 8 year-old male started 48 hrs prior to admission with abdominal pain in the right lower quadrant associated with vomiting and fever. The physical examination revealed discrete bilateral conjunctival hiperemia, right cervical adenomegaly, and severe abdominal pain in the
Flour is a complex organic dust consisting of one or a mixture of several cereal grains (wheat, rye, millet, barley, oats or corn cereal) that have been processed or ground by milling. In addition, flour may contain a diverse number of contaminants, such as silica, fungi and their metabolites
More than 40% of under-five deaths globally occur in the neonatal period, resulting in 3.1 million newborn death each year.
The majority of these deaths usually occur in low income countries . On the other hand, the survivors of neonatal sepsis are vulnerable to short- and long term
The mais goal of the study is to assess the natural history of vertical ZIKV transmission from pregnancy to the end of third year of life and the existence of risk factors associated with the incidence of clinical and neurological disorders, specially microcephaly.
A longitudinal study will be
other data elements, such as eligibility criteria or outcome measures. (Limit: 32,000 characters) Project title: Pre-delivery administration of azithromycin to prevent neonatal sepsis and death: a phase III double-blind randomized clinical trial Acronym: PregnAnZI-2
LIST OF INVESTIGATORS
Chief
Study design:
This study has two design components viz.
- Prospective enrollment of a cohort of term infants at birth; and 3 monthly follow-up at the ages of 3 months, 6 months, 9 months and 12 months.
- Randomization at 6 months of age to three intervention groups viz (i) measles vaccination at 9
This non-interventional study covers more than 15000 patients from outpatient sites in Russia, Armenia, Moldova and Georgia.
Influenza and acute respiratory viral infections (ARVI) diagnosis validate according to "World Health Organization (WHO) Guidelines for Pharmacological Management of Pandemic
Background Some maternal blood loss normally occurs at the time of vaginal delivery. The best estimates indicate that a loss of approximately 500 mL is average, with a range of about 250-700 mL.[1,2] Some of this bleeding arises from birth canal lacerations or surgical incisions (i.e., episiotomy),
Background
- Rhinitis (AR) is one of the most concerned public health problems worldwide, resulting from an inflammation of nasal membranes.
- Nursing students is one of the high risk groups, particularly when performing clinical practicum in hospitals in which they would contact with multiple
Pharyngitis is a common reason for patients' visit to doctors. Group A beta- hemolytic streptococci (GABHS) account for 15-30 percent of cases of acute pharyngitis in children and 5 to 20 percent in adults1.
Because the signs and symptoms of GABHS pharyngitis overlap extensively with other