Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

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1. The prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection and other public health outcomes during the BA.2/BA.2.12.1 surge, New York City, April–May 2022

   This article has 10 authors:

   1. Saba A. Qasmieh
   2. McKaylee M. Robertson
   3. Chloe A. Teasdale
   4. Sarah G. Kulkarni
   5. Heidi E. Jones
   6. David A. Larsen
   7. John J. Dennehy
   8. Margaret McNairy
   9. Luisa N. Borrell
   10. Denis Nash

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2. SARS-CoV-2 requires acidic pH to infect cells

   This article has 21 authors:

   1. Alex J. B. Kreutzberger
   2. Anwesha Sanyal
   3. Anand Saminathan
   4. Louis-Marie Bloyet
   5. Spencer Stumpf
   6. Zhuoming Liu
   7. Ravi Ojha
   8. Markku T. Patjas
   9. Ahmed Geneid
   10. Gustavo Scanavachi
   11. Catherine A. Doyle
   12. Elliott Somerville
   13. Ricardo Bango Da Cunha Correia
   14. Giuseppe Di Caprio
   15. Sanna Toppila-Salmi
   16. Antti Mäkitie
   17. Volker Kiessling
   18. Olli Vapalahti
   19. Sean P. J. Whelan
   20. Giuseppe Balistreri
   21. Tom Kirchhausen

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3. Targeting neutrophils extracellular traps (NETs) reduces multiple organ injury in a COVID-19 mouse model

   This article has 16 authors:

   1. Flavio P. Veras
   2. Giovanni F. Gomes
   3. Bruna M. S. Silva
   4. Diego B. Caetité
   5. Cicero J. L. R. Almeida
   6. Camila Meirelles S. Silva
   7. Ayda H. Schneider
   8. Emily S. Corneo
   9. Caio S. Bonilha
   10. Sabrina S. Batah
   11. Ronaldo Martins
   12. Eurico Arruda
   13. Alexandre T. Fabro
   14. José C. Alves-Filho
   15. Thiago M. Cunha
   16. Fernando Q. Cunha

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4. The unique ORF8 protein from SARS-CoV-2 binds to human dendritic cells and induces a hyper-inflammatory cytokine storm

   This article has 22 authors:

   1. Matthias Hamdorf
   2. Thomas Imhof
   3. Ben Bailey-Elkin
   4. Janina Betz
   5. Sebastian J Theobald
   6. Alexander Simonis
   7. Veronica Di Cristanziano
   8. Lutz Gieselmann
   9. Felix Dewald
   10. Clara Lehmann
   11. Max Augustin
   12. Florian Klein
   13. Miguel A Alejandre Alcazar
   14. Robert Rongisch
   15. Mario Fabri
   16. Jan Rybniker
   17. Heike Goebel
   18. Jörg Stetefeld
   19. Bent Brachvogel
   20. Claus Cursiefen
   21. Manuel Koch
   22. Felix Bock

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5. Prophylactic treatment of Glycyrrhiza glabra mitigates COVID-19 pathology through inhibition of pro-inflammatory cytokines in the hamster model and NETosis

   This article has 10 authors:

   1. Zaigham Abbas Rizvi
   2. Prabhakar Babele
   3. Srikanth Sadhu
   4. Upasna Madan
   5. Manas Ranjan Tripathy
   6. Sandeep Goswami
   7. Shailendra Mani
   8. Sachin Kumar
   9. Amit Awasthi
   10. Madhu Dikshit

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6. High Rates of Rapid Antigen Test Positivity After 5 days of Isolation for COVID-19

   This article has 6 authors:

   1. Emily Landon
   2. Allison H. Bartlett
   3. Rachel Marrs
   4. Caroline Guenette
   5. Stephen G Weber
   6. Michael J. Mina

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7. Live-attenuated vaccine sCPD9 elicits superior mucosal and systemic immunity to SARS-CoV-2 variants in hamsters

   This article has 35 authors:

   1. Geraldine Nouailles
   2. Julia M. Adler
   3. Peter Pennitz
   4. Stefan Peidli
   5. Luiz Gustavo Teixeira Alves
   6. Morris Baumgardt
   7. Judith Bushe
   8. Anne Voss
   9. Alina Langenhagen
   10. Christine Langner
   11. Ricardo Martin Vidal
   12. Fabian Pott
   13. Julia Kazmierski
   14. Aileen Ebenig
   15. Mona V. Lange
   16. Michael D. Mühlebach
   17. Cengiz Goekeri
   18. Szandor Simmons
   19. Na Xing
   20. Azza Abdelgawad
   21. Susanne Herwig
   22. Günter Cichon
   23. Daniela Niemeyer
   24. Christian Drosten
   25. Christine Goffinet
   26. Markus Landthaler
   27. Nils Blüthgen
   28. Haibo Wu
   29. Martin Witzenrath
   30. Achim D. Gruber
   31. Samantha D. Praktiknjo
   32. Nikolaus Osterrieder
   33. Emanuel Wyler
   34. Dusan Kunec
   35. Jakob Trimpert

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8. Three-dose vaccination-induced immune responses protect against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2

   This article has 16 authors:

   1. Runhong Zhou
   2. Na Liu
   3. Xin Li
   4. Qiaoli Peng
   5. Cheuk-Kwan Yiu
   6. Haode Huang
   7. Dawei Yang
   8. Zhenglong Du
   9. Hau-Yee Kwok
   10. Ka-Kit Au
   11. Jian-Piao Cai
   12. Ivan Fan-Ngai Hung
   13. Kelvin Kai-Wang To
   14. Xiaoning Xu
   15. Kwok-Yung Yuen
   16. Zhiwei Chen

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9. Biochemical Characterization of Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Nsp15 Endoribonuclease Variants

   This article has 5 authors:

   1. Isha M. Wilson
   2. Meredith N. Frazier
   3. Jian-Liang Li
   4. Thomas A. Randall
   5. Robin E. Stanley

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10. Favipiravir, lopinavir-ritonavir or combination therapy (FLARE): a randomised, double blind, 2x2 factorial placebo-controlled trial of early antiviral therapy in COVID-19

    This article has 18 authors:

    1. David M Lowe
    2. Li-An K Brown
    3. Kashfia Chowdhury
    4. Stephanie Davey
    5. Philip Yee
    6. Felicia Ikeji
    7. Amalia Ndoutoumou
    8. Divya Shah
    9. Alexander Lennon
    10. Abhulya Rai
    11. Akosua A Agyeman
    12. Anna Checkley
    13. Nicola Longley
    14. Hakim-Moulay Dehbi
    15. Nick Freemantle
    16. Judith Breuer
    17. Joseph F Standing
    18. FLARE Investigators

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