PROLONGED SARS-COV-2 INFECTION FOLLOWING RITUXIMAB TREATMENT: CLINICAL COURSE AND RESPONSE TO THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS CORRELATED WITH QUANTITATIVE VIRAL CULTURES AND CYCLE THRESHOLD VALUES

Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 infection following rituximab treatment: clinical course and response to therapeutic interventions correlated with quantitative viral cultures and cycle threshold values

Abstract Background Detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA Hardware is completed through reverse transcriptase-PCR (RT-PCR) from either oropharyngeal or nasopharyngeal swabs, critically important for diagnostics but also from an infection control lens.Recent studies have suggested that COVID-19 patients can de

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Late immune consequences of combat trauma: a review of trauma-related immune dysfunction and potential therapies

Abstract With improvements in personnel and vehicular body armor, robust casualty evacuation capabilities, and damage control resuscitation strategies, more combat casualties are surviving to reach higher levels of care throughout the casualty evacuation system.As such, medical centers are becoming more accustomed to managing the deleterious late c

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