Background: Most individuals show immunity to SARS-CoV-2 from vaccination or infection, or both. We aimed to determine the safety and immunogenicity of an omicron-containing COVID-19 vaccine (mRNA-1273.222) in vaccine-naive adolescents who were SARS-CoV-2 positive.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBCR::ABL1-negative myeloproliferative neoplasms are hematopoietic disorders characterized by panmyelosis. JAK2 V617F is a frequent variant in these diseases and often occurs in the 46/1 haplotype. The G allele of rs10974944 has been shown to be associated with this variant, specifically its acquisition, correlations with familial cases, and laboratory alterations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF(dbSNP: ) is the most frequent and most-studied variant in negative myeloproliferative neoplasms and in the gene. The present study aimed to molecularly characterize variants in the complete coding region of the gene in patients with negative chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms. The study included 97 patients with negative myeloproliferative neoplasms, including polycythemia vera (n=38), essential thrombocythemia (n=55), and myelofibrosis (n=04).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: A continuing nationwide vaccination campaign began in the Dominican Republic on February 16, 2021 to prevent severe consequences of acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Estimates of vaccine effectiveness under real-world conditions are needed to support policy decision making and inform further vaccine selection.
Methods: We conducted a test-negative case-control study to assess the real-world effectiveness of nationwide coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination program using an inactivated vaccine (CoronaVac) on preventing symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections and hospitalizations from August to November 2021 in the Dominican Republic.
The V617F variant constitutes a genetic alteration of higher frequency in BCR/ABL1 negative chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms, which is caused by a substitution of a G ˃ T at position 1849 and results in the substitution of valine with phenylalanine at codon 617 of the polypeptide chain. Clinical, morphological and molecular genetic features define the diagnosis criteria of polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia and primary myelofibrosis. Currently, V617F is associated with clonal hematopoiesis, genomic instability, dysregulations in hemostasis and immune response.
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