Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

Latest preprint reviews

1. COVID-19 and its clinical severity are associated with alterations of plasma sphingolipids and enzyme activities of sphingomyelinase and ceramidase

   This article has 13 authors:

   1. Christiane Mühle
   2. Andreas Kremer
   3. Marcel Vetter
   4. Jonas Schmid
   5. Susanne Achenbach
   6. Fabian Schumacher
   7. Bernd Lenz
   8. Céline Cougoule
   9. Nicolas Hoertel
   10. Alexander Carpinteiro
   11. Erich Gulbins
   12. Burkhard Kleuser
   13. Johannes Kornhuber

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases, ScreenIT

2. WITHDRAWN: SARS-CoV-2 invades cognitive centers of the brain and induces Alzheimer’s-like neuropathology

   This article has 13 authors:

   1. Wei-Bin Shen
   2. Montasir Elahi
   3. James Logue
   4. Penghua Yang
   5. Lauren Baracco
   6. E. Albert Reece
   7. Bingbing Wang
   8. Ling Li
   9. Thomas G Blanchard
   10. Zhe Han
   11. Robert A Rissman
   12. Matthew B Frieman
   13. Peixin Yang

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases, ScreenIT

3. Evaluating splatter and settled aerosol during orthodontic debonding: implications for the COVID-19 pandemic

   This article has 9 authors:

   1. Hayley Llandro
   2. James R. Allison
   3. Charlotte C. Currie
   4. David C. Edwards
   5. Charlotte Bowes
   6. Justin Durham
   7. Nicholas Jakubovics
   8. Nadia Rostami
   9. Richard Holliday

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4. Nasally-delivered interferon-λ protects mice against upper and lower respiratory tract infection of SARS-CoV-2 variants including Omicron

   This article has 7 authors:

   1. Zhenlu Chong
   2. Courtney E. Karl
   3. Peter J. Halfmann
   4. Yoshihiro Kawaoka
   5. Emma S. Winkler
   6. Jinsheng Yu
   7. Michael S. Diamond

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases, ScreenIT

5. An integrated lab-on-a-chip device for RNA extraction, amplification and CRISPR-Cas12a-assisted detection for COVID-19 screening in resource-limited settings

   This article has 10 authors:

   1. Bongkot Ngamsom
   2. Alexander Iles
   3. Moses Kamita
   4. Racheal Kimani
   5. Pablo Rodriguez-Mateos
   6. Mary Mungai
   7. Charlotte E. Dyer
   8. Cheryl Walter
   9. Jesse Gitaka
   10. Nicole Pamme

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases, ScreenIT

6. SARS-CoV-2 spike protein as a bacterial lipopolysaccharide delivery system in an overzealous inflammatory cascade

   This article has 9 authors:

   1. Firdaus Samsudin
   2. Palur Raghuvamsi
   3. Ganna Petruk
   4. Manoj Puthia
   5. Jitka Petrlova
   6. Paul MacAry
   7. Ganesh S Anand
   8. Peter J Bond
   9. Artur Schmidtchen

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7. Immunogenicity of a Third Dose of BNT162b2 to Ancestral Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 and the Omicron Variant in Adults Who Received 2 Doses of Inactivated Vaccine

   This article has 17 authors:

   1. Nancy H L Leung
   2. Samuel M S Cheng
   3. Mario Martín-Sánchez
   4. Niki Y M Au
   5. Yvonne Y Ng
   6. Leo L H Luk
   7. Karl C K Chan
   8. John K C Li
   9. Yonna W Y Leung
   10. Leo C H Tsang
   11. Sara Chaothai
   12. Kelvin K H Kwan
   13. Dennis K M Ip
   14. Leo L M Poon
   15. Gabriel M Leung
   16. J S Malik Peiris
   17. Benjamin J Cowling

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8. Small-molecule ligands can inhibit −1 programmed ribosomal frameshifting in a broad spectrum of coronaviruses

   This article has 9 authors:

   1. Sneha Munshi
   2. Krishna Neupane
   3. Sandaru M. Ileperuma
   4. Matthew T.J. Halma
   5. Jamie A. Kelly
   6. Clarissa F. Halpern
   7. Jonathan D. Dinman
   8. Sarah Loerch
   9. Michael T. Woodside

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9. Glycosylated extracellular mucin domains protect against SARS-CoV-2 infection at the respiratory surface

   This article has 11 authors:

   1. Maitrayee Chatterjee
   2. Liane Z. X. Huang
   3. Anna Z. Mykytyn
   4. Chunyan Wang
   5. Mart M. Lamers
   6. Bart Westendorp
   7. Richard W. Wubbolts
   8. Jos P. M. van Putten
   9. Berend-Jan Bosch
   10. Bart L. Haagmans
   11. Karin Strijbis

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases, ScreenIT

10. An open label randomized clinical trial of Indomethacin for mild and moderate hospitalised Covid-19 patients

    This article has 8 authors:

    1. Rajan Ravichandran
    2. Surapaneni Krishna Mohan
    3. Suresh Kumar Sukumaran
    4. Devakumar Kamaraj
    5. Sumetha Suga Daivasuga
    6. Samson Oliver Abraham Samuel Ravi
    7. Sivakumar Vijayaraghavalu
    8. Ramarathnam Krishna Kumar

    Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases, ScreenIT