Publications by authors named "S Ponce-de-Leon"

Article Synopsis
  • The study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of post-COVID-19 symptoms and their association with risk factors and comorbidities in a university outpatient population.
  • A total of 881 outpatient COVID-19 patients were analyzed, revealing a significant 74.96% experienced post-COVID-19 symptoms, with fatigue, headache, and difficulty concentrating being the most common.
  • Additionally, over 60% of participants reported at least one comorbidity, with obesity being the most prevalent, indicating that such factors heavily influenced their quality of life and mental health following recovery.
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While the HPV vaccine is highly effective, it is unknown whether other, untargeted viral types could occupy empty niches to become an emerging threat. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Pimenoff and colleagues present a community-level epidemiological analysis of HPV types up to 8 years after different vaccination policies.

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There is still a need for safe, efficient, and low-cost coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines that can stop transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Here we evaluated a vaccine candidate based on a live recombinant Newcastle disease virus (NDV) that expresses a stable version of the spike protein in infected cells as well as on the surface of the viral particle (AVX/COVID-12-HEXAPRO, also known as NDV-HXP-S). This vaccine candidate can be grown in embryonated eggs at a low cost, similar to influenza virus vaccines, and it can also be administered intranasally, potentially to induce mucosal immunity.

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A healthy development is denied to millions of children worldwide as harsh life conditions manifest themselves in an altered inflammation-prone microbiome crosstalk environment. Keynote of this tragedy is that insufficient nutritious amino acid blocks lipids-intake to sustain diverse microbiota, and promotes the generalist strategy followed by -besides other proteobacteria- of shifting gut metabolism, subverting the site specificity of first immune reaction. Furthermore, it could be hypothesized that selective success lies in their ability to induce inflammation, since this phenomenon also fuels horizontal gene transfer (HGT).

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Background: Vaccination against COVID-19 is a primary tool for controlling the pandemic. However, the spread of vaccine hesitancy constitutes a significant threat to reverse progress in preventing the disease. Studies conducted in Mexico have revealed that vaccination intention in Mexico among the general population ranges from 62 to 82%.

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