This page lists feature articles on COVID-19 relevant to people working at St Vincent's Health Australia.
All articles listed are open access unless stated otherwise.
Therapy
Effects of losartan on patients hospitalized for acute coronavirus disease 2019: a randomized controlled trial.
Clinical Infectious Diseases:2024: July 10 Full text
Real world use of Tixagevimab/Cilgavimab pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 in Immunocompromised individuals: data from the OCTOPUS Study.
Vaccines:2024: July 17 Full text
Clinical Practice
Paediatric presentations of COVID-19 and pertinent radiologic findings.
Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI:2024: July 25 Full text
Infection Control
Admission screening testing of patients and staff N95 masks are cost-effective in reducing COVID-19 hospital acquired infections. AUS
Journal of Hospital Infection:2024: July 15 Full text
Personal protective effect of wearing surgical face masks in public spaces on self-reported respiratory symptoms in adults: pragmatic randomised superiority trial. OA
BMJ:2024: July 24 Full text
Pathophysiology
Longitudinal analysis of the lung proteome reveals persistent repair months after mild to moderate COVID-19.
Cell Reports Medicine:2024: July 8 Full text
Evolution of serious and life-threatening COVID-19 pneumonia as the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic progressed: an observational study of mortality to 60 days after admission to a 15-hospital US health system.
BMJ Open:2024: July 8 Full text
Long COVID
Long-term effects of COVID-19 on endothelial function, arterial stiffness, and blood pressure in college students: a pre-post-controlled study.
BMC Infectious Diseases:2024: July 27 Full text
Vaccines
Evaluation of the effect of influenza vaccine on the development of symptoms in SARS-CoV-2 infection and outcome in patients hospitalized due to COVID-19.
Vaccines:2024: July 12 Full text
The direct effect of SARS-CoV-2 virus vaccination on human ovarian granulosa cells explains menstrual irregularities.
NJP Vaccines:2024: June 26 Full text
Multi-antigen intranasal vaccine protects against challenge with sarbecoviruses and prevents transmission in hamsters.
Nature Communications:2024: July 23 Full text
Immunology
SARS-CoV-2 rapidly infects peripheral sensory and autonomic neurons, contributing to central nervous system neuroinvasion before viremia.
International Journal of Molecular Sciences:2024:July 28 Full text