Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

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1. Less severe course of COVID-19 is associated with elevated levels of antibodies against seasonal human coronaviruses OC43 and HKU1 (HCoV OC43, HCoV HKU1)

   This article has 8 authors:

   1. Martin Dugas
   2. Tanja Grote-Westrick
   3. Richard Vollenberg
   4. Eva Lorentzen
   5. Tobias Brix
   6. Hartmut Schmidt
   7. Phil-Robin Tepasse
   8. Joachim Kühn

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2. Immunological memory to SARS-CoV-2 assessed for up to eight months after infection

   This article has 21 authors:

   1. Jennifer M. Dan
   2. Jose Mateus
   3. Yu Kato
   4. Kathryn M. Hastie
   5. Esther Dawen Yu
   6. Caterina E. Faliti
   7. Alba Grifoni
   8. Sydney I. Ramirez
   9. Sonya Haupt
   10. April Frazier
   11. Catherine Nakao
   12. Vamseedhar Rayaprolu
   13. Stephen A. Rawlings
   14. Bjoern Peters
   15. Florian Krammer
   16. Viviana Simon
   17. Erica Ollmann Saphire
   18. Davey M. Smith
   19. Daniela Weiskopf
   20. Alessandro Sette
   21. Shane Crotty

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3. SARS-CoV-2 responsive T cell numbers and anti-Spike IgG levels are both associated with protection from COVID-19: A prospective cohort study in keyworkers

   This article has 16 authors:

   1. David Wyllie
   2. Hayley E Jones
   3. Ranya Mulchandani
   4. Adam Trickey
   5. Sian Taylor-Phillips
   6. Tim Brooks
   7. Andre Charlett
   8. AE Ades
   9. EDSAB-HOME investigators
   10. Philippa Moore
   11. John Boyes
   12. Anil Hormis
   13. Neil Todd
   14. Ian Reckless
   15. Andrew Makin
   16. Isabel Oliver

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4. Intranasal fusion inhibitory lipopeptide prevents direct-contact SARS-CoV-2 transmission in ferrets

   This article has 19 authors:

   1. Rory D. de Vries
   2. Katharina S. Schmitz
   3. Francesca T. Bovier
   4. Camilla Predella
   5. Jonathan Khao
   6. Danny Noack
   7. Bart L. Haagmans
   8. Sander Herfst
   9. Kyle N. Stearns
   10. Jennifer Drew-Bear
   11. Sudipta Biswas
   12. Barry Rockx
   13. Gaël McGill
   14. N. Valerio Dorrello
   15. Samuel H. Gellman
   16. Christopher A. Alabi
   17. Rik L. de Swart
   18. Anne Moscona
   19. Matteo Porotto

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5. Anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG responses are powerful predicting signatures for the outcome of COVID-19 patients

   This article has 25 authors:

   1. Qing Lei
   2. Cai-zheng Yu
   3. Yang Li
   4. Hong-yan Hou
   5. Zhao-wei Xu
   6. Zong-jie Yao
   7. Yan-di Zhang
   8. Dan-yun Lai
   9. Jo-Lewis Banga Ndzouboukou
   10. Bo Zhang
   11. Hong Chen
   12. Zhu-qing Ouyang
   13. Jun-biao Xue
   14. Xiao-song Lin
   15. Yun-xiao Zheng
   16. Xue-ning Wang
   17. He-wei Jiang
   18. Hai-nan Zhang
   19. Huan Qi
   20. Shu-juan Guo
   21. Mei-an He
   22. Zi-yong Sun
   23. Feng Wang
   24. Sheng-ce Tao
   25. Xiong-lin Fan

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6. Model-based assessment of SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant transmission dynamics within partially vaccinated K-12 school populations

   This article has 3 authors:

   1. Jennifer R. Head
   2. Kristin L. Andrejko
   3. Justin V. Remais

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7. Covid-19 mortality in children and adolescents in Mexico

   This article has 4 authors:

   1. Dalia Stern
   2. Eduardo Arias-de la Garza
   3. María Teresa García-Romero
   4. Martin Lajous

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8. Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe outcomes with variants of concern in Ontario

   This article has 17 authors:

   1. Sharifa Nasreen
   2. Hannah Chung
   3. Siyi He
   4. Kevin A. Brown
   5. Jonathan B. Gubbay
   6. Sarah A. Buchan
   7. Deshayne B. Fell
   8. Peter C. Austin
   9. Kevin L. Schwartz
   10. Maria E. Sundaram
   11. Andrew Calzavara
   12. Branson Chen
   13. Mina Tadrous
   14. Kumanan Wilson
   15. Sarah E. Wilson
   16. Jeffrey C. Kwong
   17. on behalf of the Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN) Provincial Collaborative Network (PCN) Investigators

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9. Critical Role of the Subways in the Initial Spread of SARS-CoV-2 in New York City

   This article has 1 author:

   1. Jeffrey E. Harris

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10. SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence in Sierra Leone, March 2021: a cross-sectional, nationally representative, age-stratified serosurvey

    This article has 24 authors:

    1. Mohamed Bailor Barrie
    2. Sulaiman Lakoh
    3. J Daniel Kelly
    4. Joseph Sam Kanu
    5. James Sylvester Squire
    6. Zikan Koroma
    7. Silleh Bah
    8. Osman Sankoh
    9. Abdulai Brima
    10. Rashid Ansumana
    11. Sarah A Goldberg
    12. Smit Chitre
    13. Chidinma Osuagwu
    14. Raphael Frankfurter
    15. Justin Maeda
    16. Bernard Barekye
    17. Tamuno-Wari Numbere
    18. Mohammed Abdulaziz
    19. Anthony Mounts
    20. Curtis Blanton
    21. Tushar Singh
    22. Mohamed Samai
    23. Mohamed Vandi
    24. Eugene T Richardson

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