Global Public Health in COVID-19: Pandemic Research from University Hospital Institute Méditerranée Infection
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Epidemiology & Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: medical entomology; ticks & tick-borne diseases; fleas & flea-borne diseases; lice & tick-borne diseases; emerging infectious diseases; vector borne diseases; tropical medicine; rickettsiology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
SARS-CoV-2 spread rapidly in 2020, and the global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has since resulted in considerable unexpected mortality in Europe and America. Interestingly, one year after the first cases were detected in Africa, the mortality was still low in many countries of the continent, far below predictions. The COVID-19 public health impact has also been much lower in Asia. COVID-19 ranges from asymptomatic infection to acute respiratory distress syndrome with multisystem involvement, particularly in older individuals and individuals with co-morbidities. Specific clinical signs have also been described. Dramatic efforts have been made to develop diagnosis tests and make them available. Treatment options for COVID‐19, including drug repositioning (also called drug repurposing, involving the investigation of existing drugs for new therapeutic purposes) has resulted in passionate academic debate.
Regrouping patient care, diagnostics, research, and development, the University Hospital Institute Méditerranée Infection (IHU-MI) in Marseille France has been built to contain and understand contagion and fight emerging infectious diseases in a well-designed building. The principle of the IHU-MI is technological capacity, also in terms of human resources and applications, support of students, connections with southern countries through win-win collaborations, autonomy, and speed of decisions.
This Special Issue aims to offer a place to report some of the work carried out in the IHU-MI and welcomes original clinical research and reviews on COVID-19 pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management from international teams.
Prof. Dr. Philippe Parola
Dr. Corneliu Petru Popescu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- SARS-CoV-2
- COVID-19
- Emerging infectious diseases
- Point-of-care
- Drug repositioning
- Diagnostic tools
- Clinical features
- Treatment
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