Seasonality of respiratory viral infections

M Moriyama, WJ Hugentobler… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The seasonal cycle of respiratory viral diseases has been widely recognized for thousands
of years, as annual epidemics of the common cold and influenza disease hit the human …

Gut microbiota status in COVID-19: an unrecognized player?

S Donati Zeppa, D Agostini, G Piccoli… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus causes cardiopulmonary and vascular complications,
ranging in severity. Understanding the pathogenic mechanisms of the novel SARS-CoV2 …

Temperature significantly changes COVID-19 transmission in (sub) tropical cities of Brazil

DN Prata, W Rodrigues, PH Bermejo - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has become a severe public
health issue. The novelty of the virus prompts a search for understanding of how ecological …

[HTML][HTML] Gut dysbiosis during influenza contributes to pulmonary pneumococcal superinfection through altered short-chain fatty acid production

V Sencio, A Barthelemy, LP Tavares, MG Machado… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Secondary bacterial infections often complicate viral respiratory infections. We hypothesize
that perturbation of the gut microbiota during influenza A virus (IAV) infection might favor …

Association of short-chain fatty acids in the gut microbiome with clinical response to treatment with nivolumab or pembrolizumab in patients with solid cancer tumors

M Nomura, R Nagatomo, K Doi, J Shimizu… - JAMA network …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Immunotherapy using immune checkpoint inhibitors has been remarkably
effective for treating multiple cancer types, and the gut microbiome is a possible factor …

A cross-sectional analysis of meteorological factors and SARS-CoV-2 transmission in 409 cities across 26 countries

F Sera, B Armstrong, S Abbott, S Meakin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
There is conflicting evidence on the influence of weather on COVID-19 transmission. Our
aim is to estimate weather-dependent signatures in the early phase of the pandemic, while …

Climatic signatures in the different COVID-19 pandemic waves across both hemispheres

A Fontal, MJ Bouma, A San-José, L López… - Nature Computational …, 2021 - nature.com
The roles of climate and true seasonal signatures in the epidemiology of emergent
pathogens, and that of SARS-CoV-2 in particular, remain poorly understood. With a …

Virus infections and host metabolism—can we manage the interactions?

D Sumbria, E Berber, M Mathayan… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
When viruses infect cells, they almost invariably cause metabolic changes in the infected
cell as well as in several host cell types that react to the infection. Such metabolic changes …

High body temperature increases gut microbiota-dependent host resistance to influenza A virus and SARS-CoV-2 infection

M Nagai, M Moriyama, C Ishii, H Mori… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Fever is a common symptom of influenza and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), yet its
physiological role in host resistance to viral infection remains less clear. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] Influenza seasonality and its environmental driving factors in mainland China and Hong Kong

ST Ali, BJ Cowling, JY Wong, D Chen, S Shan… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Influenza epidemics occur during winter in temperate zones, but have less
regular seasonality in the subtropics and tropics. Here we quantified the role of …