[Quality of life at 3 months of COVID-19 patients discharged from the intensive care unit during the COVID-19 pandemic in Guinea].

Introduction: in sub-Saharan Africa, the impact of intensive care unit (ICU) hospitalization of COVID patients is not at all known in terms of quality of life because it is very poorly documented. The aim of this study was to describe the quality of life at three months of patients who had been in the ICU.

Methods: we conducted a monocentric prospective cohort study over a 6-month period.

Surgical Approaches in Odontogenic Orbital Cellulitis (OOC): Our Experience and Review of Literature.

Odontogenic orbital cellulitis represents a complication of root infections of upper pre-molars and molars. The severity depends on the orbital structure involved. The treatment is based on antibiotic therapy associated or not to surgery.

Wildlife hair as bioindicators of metal exposure.

Animal hair is a useful biomonitoring tool for assessing the occurrence of trace elements in ecosystems. Essential (chromium, copper, iron, manganese, nickel, and zinc) and nonessential (aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, mercury, lead, palladium, platinum, rubidium, tin, and vanadium) elements were investigated in hair of badger (Meles meles), wild boar (Sus scrofa), marmot (Marmota marmota), wolf (Canis lupus), fox (Vulpes vulpes) and deer (Cervus elaphus) from Northwestern Italy. Badger was found to be the highest bioaccumulator of metals, while wolf, fox and deer recorded the lowest values.

Humoral immune response to SARS-CoV-2 in five different groups of individuals at different environmental and professional risk of infection.

It is partially unknown whether the immune response to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection persists with time. To address this issue, we detected the presence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in different groups of individuals previously diagnosed with COVID-19 disease (group 1 and 2), or potentially exposed to SARS-CoV-2 infection (group 3 and 4), and in a representative group of individuals with limited environmental exposure to the virus due to lockdown restrictions (group 5). The primary outcome was specific anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the different groups assessed by qualitative and quantitative analysis at baseline, 3 and 6 months follow-up.