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1142 | What age group has the highest rate of severe outcomes? | [
"Title: CDC Summary 21 MAR 2020,\nPassage: cases in the United States by age group found that 80% of deaths were among adults 65 years and older with the highest percentage of severe outcomes occurring in people 85 years and older.",
"Title: Descriptive study of severe hospitalized cases of laboratory-confirmed influenza during five epidemic seasons (2010–2015)\nPassage: During the 2010-2015 seasons 1400 cases of SHCLCI were recorded, 462 required ICU admission and 167 died: 778 were male. The median age was 61 years . The most-affected age group was the ≥ 65 years age group with 633 cases . The median age of the ≥ 65 years age group was 79 years and the mean age was 78.7 years : 296 were aged ≥ 80 years. Of deaths, 111 occurred in patients aged ≥ 65 years and 55 in patients aged > 80 years .",
"Title: Clinical characteristics and outcomes during a severe influenza season in China during 2017–2018\nPassage: in the 14-59 and > 60 groups.",
"Title: Global Mortality Impact of the 1957–1959 Influenza Pandemic\nPassage: Age-specific excess mortality rates were highest at both extremes of the age spectrum . However, when excess mortality was compared to baseline mortality rates, the age groups with highest relative burden were 15-24 years , followed by 5-14 years . In contrast, children aged <5 years and seniors aged ≥65 years only experienced a minor elevation over baseline . The sharp mortality elevation in schoolaged children and young adults was consistent throughout Europe , even though the all-age impact of the pandemic on mortality was generally low in this region."
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1231 | How long MERS-CoV remained viable at high ambient temperature (30°C) and low RH (30 %) ? | [
"Title: MERS coronavirus: diagnostics, epidemiology and transmission\nPassage: A single study has examined the ability of MERS-CoV to survive in the environment . Plastic or steel surfaces were inoculated with 10 6 TCID 50 of MERS-CoV at different temperature and relative humidity and virus recovery was attempted in cell culture. At high ambient temperature and low RH MERS-CoV remained viable for 24 h . By comparison, a well known and efficently transmitted respiratory virus, influenza A virus, could not be recovered in culture beyond four hours under any conditions . Aerosol experiments found MERS-CoV viability only decreased 7 % at low RH at 20°C. In comparison, influenza A",
"Title: MERS coronavirus: diagnostics, epidemiology and transmission\nPassage: virus decreased by 95 % . MERS-CoV survival is inferior to that previously demonstrated for SARS-CoV . For context, pathogenic bacteria can remain viable and airborne for 45 min in a coughed aerosol and can spread 4 m. MERS-CoV's ability to remain viable over long time periods gives it the capacity to thoroughly contaminate a room's surfaces when occupied by an infected and symptomatic patient . Whether MERS-CoV can remain adrift and infectious for extended periods remains unknown. Such findings expand our understanding of the possibilities for droplets to transmit respiratory viruses in many settings, including hospital waiting rooms, emergency",
"Title: MERS coronavirus: diagnostics, epidemiology and transmission\nPassage: Individual human case studies report long periods of viral shedding, sometimes intermittently and not necessarily linked to the presence of disease symptoms. In one instance, a HCW shed viral RNA for 42 days in the absence of disease . It is an area of high priority to better understand whether such cases are able to infect others. Over three quarters of MERS cases shed viral RNA in their LRT specimens for at least 30 days, while only 30 % of contacts were still shedding RNA in their URT specimens .",
"Title: Demographic Variations of MERS-CoV Infection among Suspected and Confirmed Cases: An Epidemiological Analysis of Laboratory-Based Data from Riyadh Regional Laboratory\nPassage: families and healthcare settings . Clinical pictures of this infection varied from asymptomatic to mild respiratory symptoms to severe respiratory distress and death . Severe ailment can often cause respiratory catastrophes that need mechanical ventilation and support in ICUs across different healthcare settings . Studies have suggested an incubation period of 16 days with a mean of 5-6 days , while the median time until death is 11-13 days among severely ill patients . e gold standard test for the detection of this virus is real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction assays ."
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1128 | How were the spread of GFP-expressing virus-infected cells across tissue monolayers tracked via inverted fluorescence microscopy? | [
"Title: Accelerated viral dynamics in bat cell lines, with implications for zoonotic emergence\nPassage: After application of the overlay, plates were monitored periodically using an inverted fluorescence microscope until the first signs of GFP expression were witnessed . From that time forward, a square subset of the center of each well was imaged periodically, using a CellInsight CX5 High Content Screening Platform with a 4X air objective . Microscope settings were held standard across all trials, with exposure time fixed at 0.0006 s for each image. One color channel was imaged, such that images produced show GFP-expressing cells in white and non-GFP-expressing cells in black .",
"Title: Accelerated viral dynamics in bat cell lines, with implications for zoonotic emergence\nPassage: Because plaque assays restrict viral transmission neighbor-to-neighbor in two-dimensional cellular space , we were able to track the spread of GFP-expressing virus-infected cells across tissue monolayers via inverted fluorescence microscopy. For each infection trial, we monitored and re-imaged plates for up to 200 hr of observations or until total monolayer destruction, processed resulting images, and generated a time series of the proportion of infectious-cell occupied plate space across the duration of each trial . We used generalized additive models to infer the time course of all cell culture replicates and construct the multi-trial dataset to which we eventually fit our",
"Title: Visualizing Viral Infection In Vivo by Multi-Photon Intravital Microscopy\nPassage: express cytoplasmic fluorescent proteins driven e.g., by the chicken β-actin promoter with cytomegalovirus enhancer or human ubiquitin C promoter . Many different mouse lines are available that contain reporter genes for cytoplasmic fluorescent proteins such as EGFP and mCherry . Due to strong and continuous expression rate of the fluorescent proteins long-term tracking of dividing cells without extensive bleaching is possible. In addition, with a superior signal-to-noise ratio visualization of small cellular structures with low cytoplasm content is feasible. Although the approach to adoptively transfer fluorescent cells of interest into donor mice for functional imaging studies is fast and flexible,",
"Title: Visualizing Viral Infection In Vivo by Multi-Photon Intravital Microscopy\nPassage: Recently, MP-IVM was used to study the mechanism of retrovirus spread in vivo within secondary lymphoid tissues by visualizing MLV-infected cells and MLV particles directly in living animals. In a first study, in vitro transduced B cells were adoptively transferred into mice for MP-IVM at the popliteal lymph nodes . In contrast to other studies visualizing infected cells expressing cytoplasmic GFP after reporter virus infection, full-length MLV encoding for a capsid fusion with GFP helped to analyze the subcellular distribution of a structural retroviral protein in vivo. MLV Gag-GFP revealed a polarized distribution in static MLV-infected cells indicating the existence"
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1113 | What is the conclusion of this report? | [
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"Title: Outcome of paediatric intensive care survivors\nPassage: and, therefore, strong conclusive statements difficult.",
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686 | What is a key factor in managing emerging infectious disease threats? | [
"Title: Managing emerging transnational public health security threats: lessons learned from the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak\nPassage: should be considered everyone's problem. The recent Zika virus epidemic followed many similar patterns highlighting that we all share the responsibility in responding to infectious outbreaks. Many of the country-level factors, particularly the WHO key indicators were associated with controlling the epidemic. International political and public health leaders should assess the infrastructure of countries affected by communicable diseases.",
"Title: Managing emerging transnational public health security threats: lessons learned from the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak\nPassage: This study is subject to certain limitations. Perhaps the most substantial of which is the difficulty to quantify many factors affecting control of the outbreak. For example, the West African people educated their communities, facilitating the change of social practices, such as greetings with physical contact and modifying long-standing traditional burial practices . Education messages on fighting the epidemic were communicated through messaging in radio, billboards, etc.",
"Title: Real Time Bayesian Estimation of the Epidemic Potential of Emerging Infectious Diseases\nPassage: Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases pose some of the greatest health risks to human populations worldwide. Increasingly they are a feature of our time, stoked by changes in human demographics, mobility, land use and climate, and compounded by poor standards of public health in parts of the world . Importantly, new surveillance and intervention strategies are now becoming possible, guided by quantitative interpretation of epidemiological data, potentially strengthening the hand of primary prevention efforts.",
"Title: Preventing Emerging and Re-emerging Infections in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Gaps, Challenges, and Priorities\nPassage: According to the International health regulations of 2005, strengthening or promoting surveillance and response capacities, points of entry capacities, legislation issues, coordination among various national key partners, bio-risk and bio-security and quality management in laboratories are necessary . Strengthening routine vaccination coverage will continue to be the top priority. The Region will focus on improving national managerial capacity and human resource capacity building, empowering decision-making, and supporting countries to reach unreached targets through various evidence-based approaches. Strengthening the monitoring and evaluation systems to use data for action will be among the priority activities. Similarly, strengthening the Regional surveillance networks in"
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807 | How does transmission differ between SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV? | [
"Title: MERS coronavirus: diagnostics, epidemiology and transmission\nPassage: MERS and SARS have some clinical similarities but they also diverge significantly . Defining characteristics include the higher PFC among MERS cases and the higher association between fatal MERS and older males with underlying comorbidities. For the viruses, MERS-CoV has a broader tropism, grows more rapidly in vitro, more rapidly induces cytopathogenic change, triggers distinct transcriptional responses, makes use of a different receptor, induces a more proinflammatory state and has a delayed innate antiviral response compared to SARS-CoV.",
"Title: Host resilience to emerging coronaviruses\nPassage: Both SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV are typified by a rapid progression to ARDS, however, there are some distinct differences in the infectivity and pathogenicity. The two viruses have different receptors leading to different cellular tropism, and SARS-CoV is more ubiquitous in the cell type and species it can infect. SARS-CoV uses the ACE2 receptor to gain entry to cells, while MERS-CoV uses the ectopeptidase DPP4 . Unlike SARS-CoV infection, which causes primarily a severe respiratory syndrome, MERS-CoV infection can also lead to kidney failure . SARS-CoV also spreads more rapidly between hosts, while MERS-CoV has been more easily contained, but it",
"Title: MERS coronavirus: diagnostics, epidemiology and transmission\nPassage: The 2-3 % prevalence of active MERS-CoV infections is not dissimilar to the hospital-based prevalence of other human CoVs. However, the proportion of deaths among those infected with MERS-CoV is much higher than that known for the HCoVs NL63, HKU1, 229E or OC43 in other countries, and even above that for SARS-CoV; it is not a virus that could reasonably be described as a \"storm in a teacup\". It is the low transmission rate that has prevented worldwide spread, despite many \"opportunities\".",
"Title: MERS coronavirus: diagnostics, epidemiology and transmission\nPassage: MERS-CoV was found and characterized because of its apparent association with severe, and therefore more obvious, illness in humans; we were the canaries in the coal mine. Sero-assays and prospective cohort studies have yet to determine the extent to which milder or asymptomatic cases contribute to MERS-CoV transmission chains. However, transmission of MERS-CoV is defined as sporadic , intra-familial, often healthcare associated, inefficient and requiring close and prolonged contact In a household study, 14 of 280 contacts of 26 MERS-CoV positive index patients were RNA or antibody positive; the rate of general transmission, even in outbreaks is around 3 %"
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"Title: The origins of the great pandemic\nPassage: A second location, from which the influenza outbreak may first have been reported, is to be found in northern France. Lt J.A.B. Hammond and two colleagues encountered an outbreak of 'purulent bronchitis' in late 1916 and early 1917 at a hospital centre forming part of the British army encampment at Etaples. An initial paper was published by this group in The Lancet in July 1917 . This publication precipitated a rapid follow-up article, also in The Lancet, from an independent military group reporting similar observations at Aldershot, in the south of England . Looking back 2 years later, this second",
"Title: Age-Specific Excess Mortality Patterns During the 1918–1920 Influenza Pandemic in Madrid, Spain\nPassage: The name Spanish flu comes from the first news reports of influenza-like-illness in Madrid in the late spring of 1918. However, this pandemic gained its nickname because the first mentions of the virus were published in Spain, where the press faced no censorship during World War I, owing to the country's neutrality . Many people fell ill with respiratory symptoms in May 1918, including King Alfonso XIII, which was well documented in the press . Because respiratory disease outbreaks occurred in neighboring France as early as April 1918, it is likely that the virus was introduced into Spain via Spanish",
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1195 | What percentage of all reported cases has MERS reportedly killed ? | [
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"Title: Overview of the 3rd isirv-Antiviral Group Conference – advances in clinical management\nPassage: As of July 2014, the number of confirmed cases of MERS-CoV has exceeded 830, with at least 288 associated deaths. 62 The majority of cases have involved patients with comorbidities and are predominately males with a median age of 47. 63, 64 Fewer than 25% of patients have reported contact with animals including dromedary camels, which have been shown to be one likely animal reservoir based on sero-positivity and detection of MERS-CoV. 65 More than 25% of the infections have been in healthcare workers, and the large number of nosocomial infections is likely due to inadequate infection control in hospitals",
"Title: Demographic Variations of MERS-CoV Infection among Suspected and Confirmed Cases: An Epidemiological Analysis of Laboratory-Based Data from Riyadh Regional Laboratory\nPassage: Among confirmed cases, only 25.2% were healthcare workers, whereas around 75% were non-healthcare workers."
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"Title: Mucosal Vaccination with Recombinant Adenovirus Encoding Nucleoprotein Provides Potent Protection against Influenza Virus Infection\nPassage: virus titers at day 5 post-challenge were detected at similar levels in all immunization groups . It is probable that rAd/NP may induce long-lasting innate immunity that contributes complementarily with other specific immune arms to the control of the disease by uncharacterized mechanisms . As a result, the protection may not necessarily correlate with virus titers detected in the lungs upon lethal challenge. Overall, these results indicate that i.n. immunization of rAd/NP can confer complete protection against the lethal homologous virus challenge while allowing competent virus replication to perpetuate even to day 5 post-challenge.",
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"Title: Estimating a Markovian Epidemic Model Using Household Serial Interval Data from the Early Phase of an Epidemic\nPassage: The estimated serial interval distributions and credible intervals are shown in Figure 5 for the two different values of j, along with kernel density plots for the mean serial intervals. In the original analysis a Weibull distribution was fitted and is shown for comparison; the estimated mean serial interval was 3:6 days . From the serial interval distributions we estimate the mean serial interval to be 3:6 days assuming j~2 and 3:8 days assuming j~4. The mean likelihood of the j~4 fit is approximately three times that of the j~2 fit. Figure 6 shows the expected number of serial interval",
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"Title: A rapid advice guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infected pneumonia (standard version)\nPassage: Those with one of the following pathogenic evidence is the confirmed case: positive for the 2019-nCoV by the real-time PCR test for nucleic acid in respiratory or blood samples . 2) viral gene sequencing shows highly homogeneity to the known 2019-nCoV in respiratory or blood samples .",
"Title: A rapid advice guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infected pneumonia (standard version)\nPassage: Throughout the period of home care, healthcare personnel should perform regular follow-up through face-to-face visits or phone interviews to follow the progress of symptoms and, if necessary, specific diagnostic tests should be conducted .",
"Title: Potential Rapid Diagnostics, Vaccine and Therapeutics for 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV): A Systematic Review\nPassage: There are eleven studies that focus on SARS-CoV diagnostic testing . These papers described diagnostic methods to detect the virus with the majority of them using molecular testing for diagnosis. Comparison between the molecular test and serological test showed that the molecular test has better sensitivity and specificity. Hence, enhancements to the current molecular test were conducted to improve the diagnosis. Studies looked at using nested PCR to include a pre-amplification step or incorporating N gene as an additional sensitive molecular marker to improve on the sensitivity ."
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1290 | What test could give an indication for special care for 2019-nCOV patients? | [
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"Title: A rapid advice guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infected pneumonia (standard version)\nPassage: Throughout the period of home care, healthcare personnel should perform regular follow-up through face-to-face visits or phone interviews to follow the progress of symptoms and, if necessary, specific diagnostic tests should be conducted .",
"Title: Potential Rapid Diagnostics, Vaccine and Therapeutics for 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV): A Systematic Review\nPassage: There are eleven studies that focus on SARS-CoV diagnostic testing . These papers described diagnostic methods to detect the virus with the majority of them using molecular testing for diagnosis. Comparison between the molecular test and serological test showed that the molecular test has better sensitivity and specificity. Hence, enhancements to the current molecular test were conducted to improve the diagnosis. Studies looked at using nested PCR to include a pre-amplification step or incorporating N gene as an additional sensitive molecular marker to improve on the sensitivity ."
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11 | What inhibits S-palmitoylation? | [
"Title: Role of S-Palmitoylation on IFITM5 for the Interaction with FKBP11 in Osteoblast Cells\nPassage: In 2010, Dr. Yount and co-workers reported that the antiviral activity of IFITM3 is dependent on S-palmitoylation on the protein . The S-palmitoylation is a post-translational modification on proteins by C 16 saturated-fatty acids covalently attached to certain cysteine residues via a thioester linkage . The modification is reversibly catalyzed by protein acyltransferases and acylprotein thioesterases, and confers unique properties to the protein, such as membrane binding and targeting, immunoreactivity,",
"Title: Role of S-Palmitoylation on IFITM5 for the Interaction with FKBP11 in Osteoblast Cells\nPassage: In 2010, Dr. Yount and co-workers reported that the antiviral activity of IFITM3 is dependent on S-palmitoylation on the protein . The S-palmitoylation is a post-translational modification on proteins by C 16 saturated-fatty acids covalently attached to certain cysteine residues via a thioester linkage . The modification is reversibly catalyzed by protein acyltransferases and acylprotein thioesterases, and confers unique properties to the protein, such as membrane binding and targeting, immunoreactivity,",
"Title: The intracellular dynamic of protein palmitoylation\nPassage: but, instead, likely inhibits membrane binding by blocking palmitoylation. This phosphoregulation of palmitoylation might be relevant to many palmitoylated peripheral proteins and could represent a mechanism to promote a shift toward the depalmitoylated state of a protein in the absence of active depalmitoylation. Negatively charged phosphate groups are likely to inhibit palmitoylation of neighboring cysteines by interfering with membrane interactions before palmitoylation .",
"Title: Role of S-Palmitoylation on IFITM5 for the Interaction with FKBP11 in Osteoblast Cells\nPassage: In this study, we investigated the S-palmitoylation of IFITM5 and its role in the interaction with FKBP11 in mouse osteoblast cells. Cells transfected by a plasmid DNA encoding mouse IFITM5 were grown in the presence of an established chemical reporter, 17-octadecynoic acid , or an inhibitor for the S-palmitoylation, 2-bromopalmitic acid . The biochemical assays using these compounds revealed that the wild-type IFITM5 is S-palmitoylated. To identify the Spalmitoylation site in IFITM5, we prepared cysteine-substituted mutants, IFITM5-C86A, -C52A/C53A, and -C52A/53A/86A . The chemical reporter assay suggested that at least two out of three cysteines in IFITM5 are S-palmitoylated. The interaction"
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"Title: Role of S-Palmitoylation on IFITM5 for the Interaction with FKBP11 in Osteoblast Cells\nPassage: In 2010, Dr. Yount and co-workers reported that the antiviral activity of IFITM3 is dependent on S-palmitoylation on the protein . The S-palmitoylation is a post-translational modification on proteins by C 16 saturated-fatty acids covalently attached to certain cysteine residues via a thioester linkage . The modification is reversibly catalyzed by protein acyltransferases and acylprotein thioesterases, and confers unique properties to the protein, such as membrane binding and targeting, immunoreactivity,",
"Title: The intracellular dynamic of protein palmitoylation\nPassage: but, instead, likely inhibits membrane binding by blocking palmitoylation. This phosphoregulation of palmitoylation might be relevant to many palmitoylated peripheral proteins and could represent a mechanism to promote a shift toward the depalmitoylated state of a protein in the absence of active depalmitoylation. Negatively charged phosphate groups are likely to inhibit palmitoylation of neighboring cysteines by interfering with membrane interactions before palmitoylation .",
"Title: Role of S-Palmitoylation on IFITM5 for the Interaction with FKBP11 in Osteoblast Cells\nPassage: In this study, we investigated the S-palmitoylation of IFITM5 and its role in the interaction with FKBP11 in mouse osteoblast cells. Cells transfected by a plasmid DNA encoding mouse IFITM5 were grown in the presence of an established chemical reporter, 17-octadecynoic acid , or an inhibitor for the S-palmitoylation, 2-bromopalmitic acid . The biochemical assays using these compounds revealed that the wild-type IFITM5 is S-palmitoylated. To identify the Spalmitoylation site in IFITM5, we prepared cysteine-substituted mutants, IFITM5-C86A, -C52A/C53A, and -C52A/53A/86A . The chemical reporter assay suggested that at least two out of three cysteines in IFITM5 are S-palmitoylated. The interaction"
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1002 | What is the status of MVA influenza vaccine? | [
"Title: Virus-Vectored Influenza Virus Vaccines\nPassage: MVA as a leading viral-vectored candidate vaccine.",
"Title: Virus-Vectored Influenza Virus Vaccines\nPassage: magnitude of the antigen-specific effector functions . MVA is also a potent activator of early innate immune responses further enhancing adaptive immune responses . Between early smallpox vaccine development and more recent vaccine vector development, MVA has undergone extensive safety testing and shown to be attenuated in severely immunocompromised animals and safe for use in children, adults, elderly, and immunocompromised persons. With extensive pre-clinical data, recombinant MVA vaccines expressing influenza antigens have been tested in clinical trials and been shown to be safe and immunogenic in humans . These results combined with data from other clinical and pre-clinical studies support",
"Title: Viral vector-based influenza vaccines\nPassage: MVA holds great promise as a vaccine vector and was initially shown to be a promising influenza vaccine in 1994 by Sutter et al. 37 This vaccine was engineered to express the HA and nucleoprotein gene from influenza virus A/PR/8/34. In addition, recombinant MVA expressing other proteins from various influenza strains were generated and tested in animal models.",
"Title: Viral vector-based influenza vaccines\nPassage: various subtypes of influenza A virus. This vaccination regimen proved immunogenic in pigs, but the protective potential was not tested in this species. 58 An MVA-NPCM1 vaccine was subsequently tested in phase 1/2a clinical trials and was shown to induce virus-specific CD8 C T-cells in humans and protect from experimental challenge infection with an A virus. 58, 60, 61 Furthermore, this vaccination regimen was again shown to be safe and immunogenic in the elderly, 62 and could be co-administered with TIV. 63 Universal influenza vaccines on basis of MVA Because of the variable nature of influenza viruses and the extensive"
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1002 | What is the status of MVA influenza vaccine? | [
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"Title: Virus-Vectored Influenza Virus Vaccines\nPassage: magnitude of the antigen-specific effector functions . MVA is also a potent activator of early innate immune responses further enhancing adaptive immune responses . Between early smallpox vaccine development and more recent vaccine vector development, MVA has undergone extensive safety testing and shown to be attenuated in severely immunocompromised animals and safe for use in children, adults, elderly, and immunocompromised persons. With extensive pre-clinical data, recombinant MVA vaccines expressing influenza antigens have been tested in clinical trials and been shown to be safe and immunogenic in humans . These results combined with data from other clinical and pre-clinical studies support",
"Title: Viral vector-based influenza vaccines\nPassage: MVA holds great promise as a vaccine vector and was initially shown to be a promising influenza vaccine in 1994 by Sutter et al. 37 This vaccine was engineered to express the HA and nucleoprotein gene from influenza virus A/PR/8/34. In addition, recombinant MVA expressing other proteins from various influenza strains were generated and tested in animal models.",
"Title: Viral vector-based influenza vaccines\nPassage: various subtypes of influenza A virus. This vaccination regimen proved immunogenic in pigs, but the protective potential was not tested in this species. 58 An MVA-NPCM1 vaccine was subsequently tested in phase 1/2a clinical trials and was shown to induce virus-specific CD8 C T-cells in humans and protect from experimental challenge infection with an A virus. 58, 60, 61 Furthermore, this vaccination regimen was again shown to be safe and immunogenic in the elderly, 62 and could be co-administered with TIV. 63 Universal influenza vaccines on basis of MVA Because of the variable nature of influenza viruses and the extensive"
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"Title: Viral vector-based influenza vaccines\nPassage: various subtypes of influenza A virus. This vaccination regimen proved immunogenic in pigs, but the protective potential was not tested in this species. 58 An MVA-NPCM1 vaccine was subsequently tested in phase 1/2a clinical trials and was shown to induce virus-specific CD8 C T-cells in humans and protect from experimental challenge infection with an A virus. 58, 60, 61 Furthermore, this vaccination regimen was again shown to be safe and immunogenic in the elderly, 62 and could be co-administered with TIV. 63 Universal influenza vaccines on basis of MVA Because of the variable nature of influenza viruses and the extensive"
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140 | How can the study of B-cells help in the prevention and treatment of autoimmune diseases? | [
"Title: Techniques to Study Antigen-Specific B Cell Responses\nPassage: detailed analysis of B cell subsets with pathogenic potential in humans could lead to a better understanding of how to prevent and treat autoimmune diseases.",
"Title: Techniques to Study Antigen-Specific B Cell Responses\nPassage: detailed analysis of B cell subsets with pathogenic potential in humans could lead to a better understanding of how to prevent and treat autoimmune diseases.",
"Title: Techniques to Study Antigen-Specific B Cell Responses\nPassage: The study of B cell responses has not only informed vaccine design but has also advanced our understanding of antibodymediated autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus . Up to 20% of mature, naïve B cells have receptors with the capacity to bind self-antigens . Although these cells are potentially pathogenic, the deletion of B cells with high affinity to self-antigen through apoptosis, anergy of B cells with low affinity to self-antigen, and the absence of T cell help combine together to protect against autoimmune disease in mice . The study of autoantigen-specific B cells and a",
"Title: Techniques to Study Antigen-Specific B Cell Responses\nPassage: The study of B cell responses has not only informed vaccine design but has also advanced our understanding of antibodymediated autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus . Up to 20% of mature, naïve B cells have receptors with the capacity to bind self-antigens . Although these cells are potentially pathogenic, the deletion of B cells with high affinity to self-antigen through apoptosis, anergy of B cells with low affinity to self-antigen, and the absence of T cell help combine together to protect against autoimmune disease in mice . The study of autoantigen-specific B cells and a"
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"Title: Techniques to Study Antigen-Specific B Cell Responses\nPassage: The study of B cell responses has not only informed vaccine design but has also advanced our understanding of antibodymediated autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus . Up to 20% of mature, naïve B cells have receptors with the capacity to bind self-antigens . Although these cells are potentially pathogenic, the deletion of B cells with high affinity to self-antigen through apoptosis, anergy of B cells with low affinity to self-antigen, and the absence of T cell help combine together to protect against autoimmune disease in mice . The study of autoantigen-specific B cells and a"
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509 | How were the swabs analyzed? | [
"Title: Pilot study of participant-collected nasal swabs for acute respiratory infections in a low-income, urban population\nPassage: Of the 29 swabs received, 18 had a corresponding research swab that was positive for a respiratory pathogen. Seven corresponding self-swabs were concordant with the positive research swabs for influenza, and eight corresponding self-swabs were concordant with the research swab for noninfluenza pathogens . The kappa statistic between research and self-swab was 0.84. There were no differences in demographic variables, including education level or days between drop-off and receipt of swabs, among participants whose self-and research-staff obtained swabs correlated versus those whose swabs did not correlate . Of the self-swab samples that had a corresponding positive research swab, the longest",
"Title: Pilot study of participant-collected nasal swabs for acute respiratory infections in a low-income, urban population\nPassage: the self-swab using the research swab as the gold standard was assessed. All analyses were conducted using SPSS Statistics V22.0 .",
"Title: Pilot study of participant-collected nasal swabs for acute respiratory infections in a low-income, urban population\nPassage: To assess feasibility, we determined the proportion of households agreeing to perform the self-swab, the proportion returning the swab, and the number of days elapsed between when the participants received the kit and when the swab arrived in the laboratory. All swabs obtained by research staff were analyzed by a commercially available multiplex reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction assay according to the manufacturer's instructions . The assay has a limit of detection of 1-200 tissue culture infective dose 50/mL for influenza, and an LOD of 4-30,000 TCID50/mL for non-influenza viral pathogens, of which only rhinovirus/enterovirus has an LOD of more",
"Title: Pilot study of participant-collected nasal swabs for acute respiratory infections in a low-income, urban population\nPassage: mailer that followed the US Postal Service guidelines for biological substances. 9 Participants were advised that if the swab was not sent the day it was obtained, it should be stored in the refrigerator. The research staff followed up by telephone the next day to confirm that the self-swab was obtained and sent. Each participant obtaining the self-swab received a round-trip New York City MetroCard when the specimen was received."
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681 | When did we discover that SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, was a novel coronavirus? | [
"Title: SARS to novel coronavirus – old lessons and new lessons\nPassage: Text: On 29 December 2019 clinicians in a hospital in Wuhan City, China noticed a clustering of cases of unusual pneumonia with an apparent link to a market that sells live fish, poultry and animals to the public. This event was reported to the World Health Organisation on 31 December . Within 4 weeks, by 26 January 2020, the causative organism had been identified as a novel coronavirus, the genome of the virus had been sequenced and published, reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction tests had been developed, the WHO R&D Blueprint had been activated to accelerate diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccine",
"Title: Note from the editors: novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)\nPassage: Text: The situation has continued to evolve rapidly since then and just a few weeks later, as at 23 January, 614 laboratory-confirmed cases and 17 deaths have been reported including some cases detected outside mainland China . Meanwhile, on 7 January 2020, the novel coronavirus, currently named 2019-nCoV, was officially announced as the causative agent by Chinese authorities . In order to support public health action, viral genome sequences were released by Chinese researchers on 10 January and 2 days later, four further sequences were also made available on the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data . While more",
"Title: First cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the WHO European Region, 24 January to 21 February 2020\nPassage: A cluster of pneumonia of unknown origin was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 . On 12 January 2020, Chinese authorities shared the sequence of a novel coronavirus termed severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 isolated from some clustered cases . Since then, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 has been named coronavirus disease 2019 . As at 21 February 2020, the virus had spread rapidly mostly within China but also to 28 other countries, including in the World Health Organization European Region .",
"Title: CDC Summary 21 MAR 2020,\nPassage: The SARS-CoV-2 virus is a betacoronavirus, like MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV. All three of these viruses have their origins in bats. The sequences from U.S. patients are similar to the one that China initially posted, suggesting a likely single, recent emergence of this virus from an animal reservoir."
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"Title: A Combined Syndromic Approach to Examine Viral, Bacterial, and Parasitic Agents among Febrile Patients: A Pilot Study in Kilombero, Tanzania\nPassage: Male enrollment was more common than female enrollment. The median age of enrollment was 23 years . The most common presenting complaints, other than fever, were headache , lethargy , cough , and vomiting . Of all enrolled participants, 116 were admitted for inpatient care and treatment . Patient-level data, inclusive of particular clinical and epidemiologic data as well as diagnostic results, are included in a supplemental file .",
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"Title: Primate-to-Human Retroviral Transmission in Asia\nPassage: The recent SARS epidemic vividly demonstrates how the economic infrastructure and dense population of Asia facilitate the rapid international spread of disease. The combination of large primate reservoirs, prevalent humanprimate contact, a growing immunocompromised population, and advanced infrastructure in Asia increases the likelihood of a primateborne zoonosis emerging on this continent.",
"Title: Primate-to-Human Retroviral Transmission in Asia\nPassage: than any other context.",
"Title: Primate-to-Human Retroviral Transmission in Asia\nPassage: mucosal splashes with saliva from primates are likely mechanisms of transmission .",
"Title: Transmission Potential of Chikungunya Virus and Control Measures: The Case of Italy\nPassage: the generation interval probability distribution function and the number of gonotrophic cycles of the mosquito. This method can not be applied in our study, as the undertaken control measures have contributed to alter the gonotrophic cycles of the mosquito in a indeterminable manner. We found that the probability of observing a major outbreak after the introduction of an index case depends on the ratio of mosquitoes to humans and was estimated to be in the range of 32%-76%. These results confirm the high risk to Europe of tropical vector-borne diseases as a consequence of globalization, which has been modifying the"
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