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Ashrafi S, Pourahmad Kisomi P, Maroufizadeh S, Jabbari MR, Nafar M, Samavat S, Parvin M, Dalili N. The relationship between CT value and clinical outcomes in renal patients with COVID-19. Int Urol Nephrol 2023; 55:697-709. [PMID: 36121573 PMCID: PMC9483908 DOI: 10.1007/s11255-022-03318-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2022] [Accepted: 07/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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PURPOSE Concomitant kidney diseases raise the mortality rate due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus as an independent factor. Although a qualitative PCR test's result is sufficient for diagnosis, Cycle threshold value may present relevant information to the physicians in providing faster treatment in patients with chronic conditions, including kidney diseases, to prevent morbidity and subsequent mortality. Thus, the present study was conducted to determine the relationship between the Cycle threshold value and clinical outcomes in renal patients with the coronavirus 2019. METHODS This retrospective study was conducted on renal patients with the coronavirus 2019 infection admitted to Labbafinejad Hospital in Tehran, the capital of Iran, within a period of one year, from late February 2020 to February 2021. Data were collected per the prepared checklist. Cycle threshold values were measured by performing PCR on nasopharynx and oropharynx swab samples of patients. RESULTS According to the adjusted analysis, having high viral load increased the odds of in-hospital mortality (aOR = 11.65, 95% CI 3.93-34.54), ICU admission (aOR = 5.49, 95% CI 2.16-13.97), and invasive ventilation (aOR = 7.18, 95% CI 2.61-19.74). Having high viral load also increased the odds of O2 therapy (aOR = 3.08, 95% CI 0.79-12.01), although the difference was not statistically significant (P = 0.105). CONCLUSION Cycle threshold value was a significant predictor of mortality in renal patients. Nevertheless, further studies are required on how to render optimal use of the Cycle threshold value, given that the quality of the test sample and the different groups of patients under study affect the effectiveness of this marker in predicting disease severity.
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- Sadra Ashrafi
- Chronic Kidney Disease Research Center, Department of Nephrology, Shahid Labbafinejad Medical Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran ,Urology and Nephrology Research Center, Shahid Labbafinejad Medical Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran ,Student Research Committee, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Student Research Committee, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran
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- Department of Virology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- MD, Prof. of Nephrology, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Shahid Labbafinejad Medical Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran ,Chronic Kidney Disease Research Center (CKDRC), Department of Nephrology, Labbafinejad Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Chronic Kidney Disease Research Center (CKDRC), Shahid Labbafinejad Medical Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU), Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Pathology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Chronic Kidney Disease Research Center, Department of Nephrology, Shahid Labbafinejad Medical Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. .,Urology and Nephrology Research Center, Shahid Labbafinejad Medical Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. .,Department of Internal Medicine, Shahid Labbafinejad Medical Center, Department of Nephrology, Shahid Labbafinejad Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Boustan 9, Pasdaran Ave, Tehran, Iran.
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Najafi N, Soleimanjahi H, Shahali S, Pourkarim MR, Thijssen M, Fotouhi F, Bamdad T, Azadmanesh K, Nasiri Z, Afzali N, Jabbari MR, Yari A, Karimi H, Karbalaei Niya MH. Genomic and serological assessment of asymptomatic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections in child labor. Pathog Glob Health 2022; 116:455-461. [PMID: 35152854 PMCID: PMC9518237 DOI: 10.1080/20477724.2022.2038052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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Since working children have limited access to testing and monitoring for COVID-19, we decided to measure SARS-CoV-2 prevalence among them and compare it to non-working children. Our objective is to compare the frequency of SARS-CoV-2 genome and anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody among working and non-working children. Volunteer child labor studying at Defense of Child Labor and Street Children and randomly selected 5-18-year-old (same range as child labor group) unemployed children participated in this study. The groups, respectively, had 65 and 137 members. This is an analytical cross-sectional study that surveys molecular prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection by RT-PCR, and seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibody by ELISA in working and non-working children. The IBM SPSS statistics software version 25 was used for data analysis. The χ2 or Fisher's exact test was used to analyze categorical dependent variables, for calculating odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals. Among the children enrolled in this study, molecular prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 turned out to be 18.5% in working children while it was 5.8% in unemployed children [aOR: 3.00 (CI95%: 1.00-7.00); P value: 0.003] and seroprevalence turned out to be 20% in working children vs 13.9% in non-working children [aOR: 1.000 (CI95%: 0.00-2.00); > P 0.001]. Equal SARS-CoV-2 viral load as adults and no symptoms or mild ones in children, coupled with working children's strong presence in crowded areas and their higher rate of COVID-19 prevalence, make them a probable source for spread of the virus.
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- Niloofar Najafi
- Department of Virology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Virology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran,CONTACT Hoorieh Soleimanjahi Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, P.O. Box 14115-331, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Reproductive Health and Midwifery, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Division of Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Division of Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Virology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Virology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Virology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Virology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Virology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Virology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Virology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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Jabbari MR, Soleimanjahi H, Shatizadeh Malekshahi S, Gholami M, Sadeghi L, Mohraz M. Frequency of Cytomegalovirus Viral Load in Iranian Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1-Infected Patients with CD4+ Counts <100 Cells/mm3. Intervirology 2021; 64:135-139. [PMID: 33789308 DOI: 10.1159/000514385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/29/2020] [Accepted: 01/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES The aim of present work was to assess cytomegalovirus (CMV) viremia in Iranian human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1-infected patients with a CD4+ count <100 cells/mm3 and to explore whether CMV DNA loads correlate with CD4+ cell counts or associated retinitis. METHODS This study was conducted at the AIDS research center in Iran on HIV-1-infected patients with CD4+ count <100 cells/mm3, antiretroviral therapy-naive, aged ≥18 years with no previous history of CMV end-organ disease (CMV-EOD). RESULTS Thirty-nine of 82 patients (47.56%) had detectable CMV viral load ranging from 66 to 485,500 IU/mL. CMV viral load in patients with retinitis ranges from 352 to 2,720 IU/mL, and it was undetectable in 2 patients. No significant associations between CMV viremia and CD4+ cell count was found (p value = 0.31), whereas significant association of CMV viremia in HIV-infected patients with retinitis was found (p < 0.02). CONCLUSIONS We estimated the frequency of CMV viral load infection in Iranian HIV-1-infected patients with a CD4+ cell count <100 mm3/mL in the largest national referral center for HIV-1 infection in Iran. Further research is required on the relevance of CMV viral load in diagnostic and prognostic value of CMV-EOD.
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- Mohammad Reza Jabbari
- Department of Virology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Virology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Iranian Institute for Reduction of High-Risk Behaviors, Iranian Research Center For HIV/AIDS, Tehran, Iran
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- Iranian Institute for Reduction of High-Risk Behaviors, Iranian Research Center For HIV/AIDS, Tehran, Iran
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- Iranian Institute for Reduction of High-Risk Behaviors, Iranian Research Center For HIV/AIDS, Tehran, Iran
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Farahmand M, Shatizadeh Malekshahi S, Jabbari MR, Shayestehpour M. The landscape of extrapulmonary manifestations of human parainfluenza viruses: A systematic narrative review. Microbiol Immunol 2020; 65:1-9. [PMID: 33270253 DOI: 10.1111/1348-0421.12865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2020] [Revised: 11/23/2020] [Accepted: 11/28/2020] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Human parainfluenza virus (HPIV) infection is associated with every kind of respiratory tract illnesses, including the common cold, laryngotracheobronchitis (i.e. croup), tracheobronchitis, bronchiolitis, and pneumonia, in both children and adults. Although HPIVs are common respiratory pathogens, there are increasing reports about extrapulmonary manifestations of HPIVs infection. Each of the HPIVs could produce infection of other organs (central nervous system, heart, myocardium, etc.) in all age groups who are either immunocompetent or immunocompromised. This review aimed at summarizing the available data on clinical manifestations of HPIV infection outside the respiratory tract from 1961 to 2020. The findings support the possibility of extrapulmonary infections that were thought to be due to rare host genetic or immunologic defects in infected patients. These findings highlight the fact that extrapulmonary dissemination of HPIV can occur, but the association is not clearly demonstrated. Our data support the hypothesis that HPIV infection is one of the possible causes of these alterations and may even be the direct cause in some cases.
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- Mohammad Farahmand
- Virology Department, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Virology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran.,Autoimmune Diseases Research Center, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran
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Jabbari MR, Shokohi T, Abastabar M, Aghili SR, Aliyali M, Mohammadi G, Hashemi E. Coexistence of opportunistic mycosis and mycobacterium tuberculosis in patients attending the Central Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory of Ghaemshahr city, Iran. Int J Mycobacteriol 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmyco.2014.11.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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