Development and evaluation of a serological test for diagnosis of COVID-19 with selected recombinant spike proteins

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - Serological test is a valuable diagnostic tool for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, considerable improvements to...     

Incidence of and risk factors for suspected COVID-19 reinfection in Kyoto City: a population-based epidemiological study

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - To determine the clinical characteristics of and risk factors for suspected reinfection with coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). This...     

Long-term sero-positivity for IgG,sequelae of respiratory symptoms,and abundance of malformed sperms in a patient recovered from severe COVID-19

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - Patients with severe coronavirus disease in 2019 (COVID-19 pneumonia) may have many sequelae, which seriously affect their...     

COVID-19: angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) expression and tissue susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - COVID-19 pandemic is caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is not only an enzyme...     

Clinical efficacy of different monoclonal antibody regimens among non-hospitalised patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 at high risk for disease progression: a prospective cohort study

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - This study aimed to compare the clinical progression of COVID-19 in high-risk outpatients treated with the monoclonal...     

Comparison of various serological assays for novel SARS-COV-2

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID19), the novel respiratory illness caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus...     

The ID NOW COVID-19, a high-speed high-performance assay

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - The ID NOW COVID-19 assay is a promising tool for the rapid identification of COVID-19 patients. However, its performances were...     

Feasibility and utility of facemask sampling in the detection of SARS-CoV-2 during an ongoing pandemic

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - Easy access to screening for timely identification and isolation of infectious COVID-19 patients remains crucial in sustaining...     

Genome-wide association study of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Chinese population

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global public health concern. The purpose of this study was to investigate the...     

The role of mouthwash sampling in SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - The current practice of COVID-19 diagnosis worldwide is the use of oro-nasopharyngeal (ONP) swabs. Our study aim was to explore...     

Impact of rapid multiplex PCR on management of antibiotic therapy in COVID-19-positive patients hospitalized in intensive care unit

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - Because the diagnosis of co/superinfection in COVID-19 patients is challenging, empirical antibiotic therapy is frequently...     

Do-not-intubate status and COVID-19 mortality in patients admitted to Dutch non-ICU wards

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - Mortality from COVID-19 has been particularly high in elderly patients on mechanical ventilation. Treatment outcomes for...     

Performances,feasibility and acceptability of nasopharyngeal swab,saliva and oral-self sampling swab for the detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - Molecular diagnosis on nasopharyngeal swabs (NPS) is the current standard for COVID-19 diagnosis, but saliva may be an...     

Clinical patterns of somatic symptoms in patients suffering from post-acute long COVID: a systematic review

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - Long COVID-19 may affect patients after hospital discharge. This study aims to describe the burden of the long-term persistence...     

Clinical and immunological characteristics in COVID-19 convalescent patients

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - The humoral and cellular immunity of convalescent COVID-19 patients is involved in pathogenesis and vaccine immunity. In this...     

COVID-19 or not COVID-19? Compared characteristics of patients hospitalized for suspected COVID-19

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - During an epidemic period, we compared patients hospitalized for initial suspicion of COVID-19 but for whom an alternative...     

Prognosis of rash and chilblain-like lesions among outpatients with COVID-19: a large cohort study

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - In a large regional observational cohort study of adult (≥?18 years), outpatients with COVID-19,...     

The recent characteristics of influenza-related hospitalization in Japanese children

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - We investigated the recent epidemiology and characteristics of influenza-related hospitalization in Japanese children. This...     

The Unyvero Hospital-Acquired pneumonia panel for diagnosis of secondary bacterial pneumonia in COVID-19 patients

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - The study was undertaken to evaluate the performance of Unyvero Hospitalized Pneumonia (HPN) panel application, a multiplex...     

Semi-mechanistic PK/PD modelling of meropenem and sulbactam combination against carbapenem-resistant strains of Acinetobacter baumannii

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - Due to limited treatment options for carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CR-AB) infections, antibiotic combinations...