Severe covid-19 pneumonia: pathogenesis and clinical management

AH Attaway, RG Scheraga, A Bhimraj, M Biehl… - bmj, 2021 - bmj.com
Severe covid-19 pneumonia has posed critical challenges for the research and medical
communities. Older age, male sex, and comorbidities increase the risk for severe disease …

Convalescent plasma or hyperimmune immunoglobulin for people with COVID‐19: a living systematic review

I Monsef, C Doree, EM Wood… - Cochrane Database …, 2020 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Convalescent plasma and hyperimmune immunoglobulin may reduce mortality
in patients with viral respiratory diseases, and are currently being investigated in trials as …

Convalescent plasma antibody levels and the risk of death from Covid-19

MJ Joyner, RE Carter, JW Senefeld… - … England Journal of …, 2021 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Convalescent plasma has been widely used to treat coronavirus disease 2019
(Covid-19) under the presumption that such plasma contains potentially therapeutic …

Neutralising antibody escape of SARS‐CoV‐2 spike protein: risk assessment for antibody‐based Covid‐19 therapeutics and vaccines

D Focosi, F Maggi - Reviews in medical virology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Spike protein is the target of both antibody‐based therapeutics (convalescent plasma,
polyclonal serum, monoclonal antibodies) and vaccines. Mutations in Spike could affect …

Comparative performance of five commercially available serologic assays to detect antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 and identify individuals with high neutralizing titers

EU Patel, EM Bloch, W Clarke, YH Hsieh… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Accurate serological assays to detect antibodies to severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are needed to characterize the epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 …

Convalescent plasma anti–SARS-CoV-2 spike protein ectodomain and receptor-binding domain IgG correlate with virus neutralization

E Salazar, SV Kuchipudi… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Clin Investig
The newly emerged severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
highlights the urgent need for assays that detect protective levels of neutralizing antibodies …

Establishment of a well-characterized SARS-CoV-2 lentiviral pseudovirus neutralization assay using 293T cells with stable expression of ACE2 and TMPRSS2

SN Neerukonda, R Vassell, R Herrup, S Liu, T Wang… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Pseudoviruses are useful surrogates for highly pathogenic viruses because of their safety,
genetic stability, and scalability for screening assays. Many different pseudovirus platforms …

[HTML][HTML] Significantly decreased mortality in a large cohort of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients transfused early with convalescent plasma containing …

E Salazar, PA Christensen, EA Graviss… - The American journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) convalescent plasma has emerged as a promising
therapy and has been granted Emergency Use Authorization by the US Food and Drug …

Phenotype, susceptibility, autoimmunity, and immunotherapy between Kawasaki disease and coronavirus disease-19 associated multisystem inflammatory syndrome …

MR Chen, HC Kuo, YJ Lee, H Chi, SC Li… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) in children is usually mild but some are susceptible to a
Kawasaki disease (KD)-like multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) in the …

The principles of antibody therapy for infectious diseases with relevance for COVID-19

A Casadevall, L Pirofski, MJ Joyner - MBio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Antibody therapies such as convalescent plasma and monoclonal antibodies have emerged
as major potential therapeutics for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Immunoglobulins …