Bacillus Calmette–Guérin vaccine, antimalarial, age and gender relation to COVID-19 spread and mortality

COVID-19 is affecting different countries all over the world with great variation in infection rate and death ratio. Some reports suggested a relation between the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine and the malaria treatment to the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Some reports related infant&#...

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Autores principales: Osama El-Gendy, Ahmed, Saeed, Haitham, Ali, Ahmed M.A., Zawbaa, Hossam M., Gomaa, Dina, Harb, Hadeer S., Madney, Yasmin M., Osama, Hasnaa, Abdelrahman, Mona A., Abdelrahim, Mohamed E.A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7332946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32654907
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.06.083
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Sumario:COVID-19 is affecting different countries all over the world with great variation in infection rate and death ratio. Some reports suggested a relation between the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine and the malaria treatment to the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Some reports related infant's lower susceptibility to the COVID-19. Some other reports a higher risk in males compared to females in such COVID-19 pandemic. Also, some other reports claimed the possible use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as prophylactic in such a pandemic. The present commentary is to discuss the possible relation between those factors and SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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