Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

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1. Impact of B.1.1.7 variant mutations on antibody recognition of linear SARS-CoV-2 epitopes

   This article has 5 authors:

   1. Winston A. Haynes
   2. Kathy Kamath
   3. Carolina Lucas
   4. John Shon
   5. Akiko Iwasaki

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases, ScreenIT

2. GRP78 binds SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein and ACE2 and GRP78 depleting antibody blocks viral entry and infection in vitro

   This article has 7 authors:

   1. Anthony J. Carlos
   2. Dat P. Ha
   3. Da-Wei Yeh
   4. Richard Van Krieken
   5. Parkash Gill
   6. Keigo Machida
   7. Amy S. Lee

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases, ScreenIT

3. Structural and Functional Comparison of SARS-CoV-2-Spike Receptor Binding Domain Produced in Pichia pastoris and Mammalian Cells

   This article has 31 authors:

   1. Argentinian AntiCovid Consortium
   2. Claudia R. Arbeitman
   3. Gabriela Auge
   4. Matías Blaustein
   5. Luis Bredeston
   6. Enrique S. Corapi
   7. Patricio O. Craig
   8. Leandro A. Cossio
   9. Liliana Dain
   10. Cecilia D’Alessio
   11. Fernanda Elias
   12. Natalia B. Fernández
   13. Javier Gasulla
   14. Natalia Gorojovsky
   15. Gustavo E. Gudesblat
   16. María G. Herrera
   17. Lorena I. Ibañez
   18. Tommy Idrovo
   19. Matías Iglesias Randon
   20. Laura Kamenetzky
   21. Alejandro D. Nadra
   22. Diego G. Noseda
   23. Carlos H. Paván
   24. María F. Pavan
   25. María F. Pignataro
   26. Ernesto Roman
   27. Lucas A. M. Ruberto
   28. Natalia Rubinstein
   29. Javier Santos
   30. Francisco Velazquez Duarte
   31. Alicia M. Zelada

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases, ScreenIT

4. Utility of established prognostic scores in COVID-19 hospital admissions: multicentre prospective evaluation of CURB-65, NEWS2 and qSOFA

   This article has 4 authors:

   1. Patrick Bradley
   2. Freddy Frost
   3. Kukatharmini Tharmaratnam
   4. Daniel G Wootton

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases, ScreenIT

5. FDA-authorized mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are effective per real-world evidence synthesized across a multi-state health system

   This article has 12 authors:

   1. Colin Pawlowski
   2. Patrick Lenehan
   3. Arjun Puranik
   4. Vineet Agarwal
   5. A.J. Venkatakrishnan
   6. Michiel J.M. Niesen
   7. John C. O’Horo
   8. Abinash Virk
   9. Melanie D. Swift
   10. Andrew D. Badley
   11. John Halamka
   12. Venky Soundararajan

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases, ScreenIT

6. Exploratory analysis of immunization records highlights decreased SARS-CoV-2 rates in individuals with recent non-COVID-19 vaccinations

   This article has 12 authors:

   1. Colin Pawlowski
   2. Arjun Puranik
   3. Hari Bandi
   4. A. J. Venkatakrishnan
   5. Vineet Agarwal
   6. Richard Kennedy
   7. John C. O’Horo
   8. Gregory J. Gores
   9. Amy W. Williams
   10. John Halamka
   11. Andrew D. Badley
   12. Venky Soundararajan

   Reviewed by ScreenIT, Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

7. Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 infection in human cardiomyocytes by targeting the Sigma-1 receptor disrupts cytoskeleton architecture and contractility

   This article has 26 authors:

   1. José Alexandre Salerno
   2. Thayana Torquato
   3. Jairo R. Temerozo
   4. Livia Goto-Silva
   5. Mayara Mendes
   6. Carolina Q. Sacramento
   7. Natalia Fintelman-Rodrigues
   8. Gabriela Vitoria
   9. Leticia Souza
   10. Isis Ornelas
   11. Carla Veríssimo
   12. Karina Karmirian
   13. Carolina Pedrosa
   14. Suelen da Silva Gomes Dias
   15. Vinicius Cardoso Soares
   16. Luiz Guilherme HS Aragão
   17. Teresa Puig-Pijuan
   18. Vinícius W. Salazar
   19. Rafael Dariolli
   20. Diogo Biagi
   21. Daniel Rodrigues Furtado
   22. Helena L. Borges
   23. Patrícia Bozza
   24. Marília Zaluar Guimarães
   25. Thiago Moreno L. Souza
   26. Stevens K. Rehen

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8. Inhaled budesonide in the treatment of early COVID-19 (STOIC): a phase 2, open-label, randomised controlled trial

   This article has 24 authors:

   1. Sanjay Ramakrishnan
   2. Dan V Nicolau
   3. Beverly Langford
   4. Mahdi Mahdi
   5. Helen Jeffers
   6. Christine Mwasuku
   7. Karolina Krassowska
   8. Robin Fox
   9. Ian Binnian
   10. Victoria Glover
   11. Stephen Bright
   12. Christopher Butler
   13. Jennifer L Cane
   14. Andreas Halner
   15. Philippa C Matthews
   16. Louise E Donnelly
   17. Jodie L Simpson
   18. Jonathan R Baker
   19. Nabil T Fadai
   20. Stefan Peterson
   21. Thomas Bengtsson
   22. Peter J Barnes
   23. Richard E K Russell
   24. Mona Bafadhel

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases, PREreview, ScreenIT

9. HIV infection and COVID-19 death: a population-based cohort analysis of UK primary care data and linked national death registrations within the OpenSAFELY platform

   This article has 25 authors:

   1. Krishnan Bhaskaran
   2. Christopher T Rentsch
   3. Brian MacKenna
   4. Anna Schultze
   5. Amir Mehrkar
   6. Chris J Bates
   7. Rosalind M Eggo
   8. Caroline E Morton
   9. Sebastian C J Bacon
   10. Peter Inglesby
   11. Ian J Douglas
   12. Alex J Walker
   13. Helen I McDonald
   14. Jonathan Cockburn
   15. Elizabeth J Williamson
   16. David Evans
   17. Harriet J Forbes
   18. Helen J Curtis
   19. William J Hulme
   20. John Parry
   21. Frank Hester
   22. Sam Harper
   23. Stephen J W Evans
   24. Liam Smeeth
   25. Ben Goldacre

   Reviewed by ScreenIT, Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

10. Robust SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell immunity is maintained at 6 months following primary infection

    This article has 24 authors:

    1. Jianmin Zuo
    2. Alexander C. Dowell
    3. Hayden Pearce
    4. Kriti Verma
    5. Heather M. Long
    6. Jusnara Begum
    7. Felicity Aiano
    8. Zahin Amin-Chowdhury
    9. Katja Hoschler
    10. Tim Brooks
    11. Stephen Taylor
    12. Jacqueline Hewson
    13. Bassam Hallis
    14. Lorrain Stapley
    15. Ray Borrow
    16. Ezra Linley
    17. Shazaad Ahmad
    18. Ben Parker
    19. Alex Horsley
    20. Gayatri Amirthalingam
    21. Kevin Brown
    22. Mary E. Ramsay
    23. Shamez Ladhani
    24. Paul Moss

    Reviewed by ScreenIT, Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases