Monkeypox: disease epidemiology, host immunity and clinical interventions

FM Lum, A Torres-Ruesta, MZ Tay, RTP Lin… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Monkeypox virus (MPXV), which causes disease in humans, has for many years been
restricted to the African continent, with only a handful of sporadic cases in other parts of the …

Rheumatic manifestations of chikungunya: emerging concepts and interventions

A Suhrbier - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2019 - nature.com
The largest epidemic ever recorded for chikungunya, a disease caused by infection with the
chikungunya virus (CHIKV), began in Africa in 2004 and spread to> 100 countries on four …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on malaria elimination

A Zawawi, M Alghanmi, I Alsaady, H Gattan… - Parasite epidemiology …, 2020 - Elsevier
SARS-CoV-2 has spread throughout the world and become the cause of the infectious
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). As low-and middle-income countries shift …

Role of interferon gamma in SARS-CoV-2-positive patients with parasitic infections

EF Abdel-Hamed, MN Ibrahim, NE Mostafa… - Gut pathogens, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background By 27 June 2020, almost half a million people had died due to COVID-
19 infections. The susceptibility and severity of infection vary significantly across nations …

Dermal and muscle fibroblasts and skeletal myofibers survive chikungunya virus infection and harbor persistent RNA

AR Young, MC Locke, LE Cook, BE Hiller… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an arthritogenic alphavirus that acutely causes fever as well
as severe joint and muscle pain. Chronic musculoskeletal pain persists in a substantial …

Infection against infection: parasite antagonism against parasites, viruses and bacteria

SS Shen, XY Qu, WZ Zhang, J Li, ZY Lv - Infectious diseases of poverty, 2019 - Springer
Background Infectious diseases encompass a large spectrum of diseases that threaten
human health, and coinfection is of particular importance because pathogen species can …

The association between malaria prevalence and COVID-19 mortality

MU Anyanwu - BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021 - Springer
Background The number of persons infected with COVID-19 continues to increase with
deaths reported daily across the globe. High income countries such as the US, the UK, Italy …

Prevalence of malaria and chikungunya co-infection in febrile patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis

W Mala, P Wilairatana, KU Kotepui… - Tropical Medicine and …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background: Co-infection with malaria and chikungunya could exert a significant public
health impact with infection misdiagnosis. Therefore, this study aimed to collect qualitative …

Vaccination and therapeutics: responding to the changing epidemiology of yellow fever

AM Bifani, EZ Ong, R de Alwis - Current treatment options in infectious …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review At the turn of the nineteenth century, yellow fever (YF) was
considered the most dangerous infectious disease with high case fatality. Subsequent, mass …

Plasmodium falciparum Infection May Protect a Population from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection

AK Panda, R Tripathy, BK Das - The Journal of infectious …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We read with great interest the article published by Nickbakhsh et al.[1] describing
epidemiological evidence of interaction between seasonal coronaviruses and other …