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A team of international researchers have found that the novel coronavirus can continue to be present in some human bodies upto 232 days.Researchers from France's Pasteur Institute, the University of Sao Paulo (USP) and Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Brazil conducted a study involving 38 Brazilian patients.The patients were followed until they tested negative twice or three times consecutively by RT-PCR.Of the 38 cases tracked, two men and a woman were atypical in the sense that the [...]

As the COVID-19 pandemic has progressed, the infectivity of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has left the scientific community astounded. While the viral infection predominantly affects the lungs, the virus has been found to infect other organs as well. This includes the heart, kidneys, stomach, and eyes. Now, scientists have found that the notorious pathogen can infect the salivary glands and replicates within them. According to the study by researchers from the University of São Paulo's [...]

According to a new study led by the São Paulo Research Foundation, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is presenting conditions that are ideal for the rise of a 'superfungus' that can greatly affect patients with severe COVID-19.

People with dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease are at threefold risk of dying as a result of infection by SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind Covid-19, according to a study by Brazilian researchers. The risk is six times greater if they are over 80, found the team at the University of Sao Paulo (USP) and Butantan Institute in partnership with colleagues at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). "We found that all causes of dementia are risk factors for severity and death [...]

Throughout the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the manifestation of symptoms in patients has been varied. While some are asymptomatic, others develop noticeable symptoms. Now, a new study states that individuals with past history of dengue (caused by mosquito-borne dengue virus) are twice as likely to develop symptoms of the coronavirus infection if they contract it. The study was conducted by scientists from São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), among residents of Mâncio Lima, [...]

Scientists now report that a high dose of vitamin D administered on admission to hospital has failed to improve the condition of patients with moderate or severe Covid-19. A clinical trial was conducted in Brazil with 240 patients who were given 200,000 IU of vitamin D3 on admission to hospital. The supplementation did not reduce length of stay or affect the proportion requiring intensive, according to the study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). In vitro [...]