Active clinical trials for "Coronavirus Infections"

The effects of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), a multisystem disease, on the body system and functions are being investigated all over the world. Examining the effect of exercise capacity, which is an important marker of cardiovascular risk in young individuals with COVID-19, will allow the planning of exercise and physical activity programs according to the needs of that specific population. The objectives of this project are:(1) To compare the submaximal and maximal exercise capacity of young adults aged between 18-30 who have had COVID-19 with healthy individuals in the same age group (2) To determine the roles of muscle strength, respiratory functions, fatigue, dyspnea, and physical activity level on exercise capacity evaluated by two different tests in young adults survived from COVID-19.

Clinical trials of prevention modalities for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and pneumonia are underway under separate protocol(s) for close contacts (i.e., household contacts, [e.g.,3502]) of infectious (index) individuals (3502-01). Characterizing the index individuals within households will ascertain the risk of exposure for the contact participant. These data will be used to strengthen the precision of efficacy estimates. This ancillary observational study will assess the cofactors for infectiousness among index individuals whose close contacts are enrolled in COVID-19 prevention clinical trials. Additionally, this study will assess post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection in index individuals that are more than two weeks past their initial diagnosis.

An outbreak of Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-coV-2) occurred in Wuhan city, Hubei province, China in December 2019. Pulmonary health has been the main focus of studies of COVID-19, current articles show that cutaneous signs appear in COVID-19 patients, their identification may be vital to early diagnosis and lead to possible better prognosis in COVID-19 patients

Vitamin D is a secosteroid hormone which may have beneficial role in reducing COVID-19 adverse outcomes by first regulating the renin angiotensin system (RAS). Recent studies on animal in which acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) was induced, showed that vitamin D lead to pulmonary permeability reduction by modulating RAS activity as well as the expression of the angiotensin-2 converting enzyme (ACE2). During COVID-19, downregulation of ACE2 leads to cytokine storm in the host, causing ARDS. In contrast, an experimental study conducted on mice in which ARDS was induced chemically, revealed that vitamin D admiration contributed to mRNA and ACE2 proteins levels improvement, ADRS milder symptoms as well as less lung damage. Additionally, vitamin D had shown antiviral effects on several previous studies, that though to be exerted either by antimicrobial peptides induction which subsequently had direct antiviral action or through immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory effects. In addition, vitamin D stabilizes physical barriers which prevent viruses from reaching tissues susceptible to infection. Finally, previous studies demonstrated that hypovitaminosis D is accompanied by various comorbidities including diabetes mellitus, hypertension, chronic cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, and cancers, all medical conditions that are considered risk factors of COVID-19 infection deterioration and even high mortality rate. The objective of this study is to evaluate whether supplementation with high-dose vitamin D improves the prognosis of patients diagnosed with COVID-19 compared to a standard dose of vitamin D.

Hospital mortality attributed to SARS-CoV-2 in France increased daily by 28% in the week before confinement. The week following this decision, the daily increase was 30%. During the week of the second week of confinement, it started a decline of 19% estimated over the last 5 days, reaching the cumulative number of 2606 deaths on 29/3 (site https://www.eficiens.com/coronavirus- personal statistics / and calculation). The diagnosis of viral carriage by RT-PCR is reserved for symptomatic cases among caregivers, due to the shortage of available tests and the cumbersome implementation. The carrier diagnosis is the benchmark, on which are implemented the therapeutic strategies and established the national statistics. It can present false negatives, linked to a research too early or too late in relation to the infection, or to a technical defect of the nasal swab sample. Caregivers on the front line in patient care, in hospitals or in the city, have only partial access to this diagnostic test, depending on the existence of symptoms. The implementation of a systematic serological screening, planned by the government and which cannot be based only on the search for the virus, will make it possible to inform the caregivers presenting symptoms or not, of their serological status, and therefore of their degree immunity or, on the contrary, susceptibility to infectious contacts. It should therefore be very voluntarily requested. On the occasion of this screening, the constitution of the COVID-3S cohort will make it possible to verify the degree of contamination in an asymptomatic population, information which is sorely lacking for the estimation of the immune coverage of the population. The implementation of the Covid-3S study will be based on the work of the National Reference Center of Pr B Lina, from the COVID-SER cohort, for the selection of the most efficient test (s). It seems useful to initiate the constitution of this cohort as soon as possible in relation to the evolution of the epidemic. Pending receipt of official recommendations, the lack of knowledge of the performance of serological tests means that it should be applied first to health professionals, better able to appreciate its limits, for the initial period before determining a validated serological screening strategy. Once the strategy has been specified, the gradual expansion of screening to the patient population will provide a more representative basis for the construction of epidemiological models for evaluating strategies.

We have to be aware of the challenge and concerns brought by 2019-nCoV to our healthcare workers. Front-line healthcare workers can become infected in the management of patients with COVID-19; the high viral load in the atmosphere, and infected medical equipment are sources for the spread of SARS-CoV-2. If prevention and control measures are not in place, these healthcare workers are at great risk of infection and become the inadvertent carriers to patients who are in hospital for other diseases. Nowadays a question that has not yet been clarified by science has been arises: is hydroxychloroquine associated with zinc compared to ivermectin associated with zinc effective as a prophylaxis for asymptomatic professionals involved in the treatment of suspected or confirmed case of COVID-19?

The objectives of the study, are to describe detection of SARS-CoV-2 in the semen of COVID-19 positive patients, the duration of positive semen and to investigate the impact on semen quality, thereby providing insights into the early impact on male reproductive function.

This study will evaluate the feasibility of self-sampling with the iAMP® COVID-19 Detection Kit (Atila BioSystems, Mountain View, CA), a new, low-cost SARS-CoV-2 test that does not require RNA extraction. The investigators will compare the sensitivity and specificity of the iAMP® assay on self-sampled mid-turbinate, anterior nares, and saliva swabs against the gold standard, a nucleic acid amplification testing assay on a clinician-collected nasopharyngeal swab.

In this study, the investigator examined epidemiological and demographic characteristics, risk factors and 28-day mortality of patients admitted to the intensive care unit with the diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 pneumonia.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (abbreviated "COVID- 19") is a pandemic respiratory disease that is caused by a novel coronavirus and was first detected in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The disease is highly infectious, and its main clinical symptoms include fever, dry cough, fatigue, myalgia, and dyspnoea.1 In China, 18.5% of the patients with COVID-19 developed to the severe stage, which is characterized by acute respiratory distress syndrome, septic shock, difficult-to-tackle metabolic acidosis, and bleeding and coagulation dysfunction. After China, COVID-19 spread across the world and many governments implemented unprecedented measures like suspension of public transportation, the closing of public spaces, close management of communities, and isolation and care for infected people and suspected cases. The Malaysian government had enforced Movement Control Order (MCO) from 18th March to 4th May 2020 and henceforth Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) until 9th June 2020. The battle against COVID-19 is still continuing in Malaysia and all over the world. Due to the CMO and CMCO in the country, public and private universities have activated the e-learning mode for classes and as the government ordered, universities are closed and no face-to-face activities allowed. This has forced students of all disciplines including dentistry to stay at home which are wide-spread across Malaysia and shift to e- learning mode. To guarantee the final success for fight against COVID-19, regardless of their education status, students' adherence to these control measures are essential, which is largely affected by their knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) towards COVID-19 in accordance with KAP theory. Once the restrictions are eased students have to come back and resume their clinical work in the campus. Hence, in this study we assessed the Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) towards COVID-19 and the students preference for online learning.