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ArticleCureus2022

Assessment of SARS-CoV-2-Infected Patients and Their Clinical Outcomes During the Third Wave in India: A Single-Center Observational Study.

Praveen R Shahapur, Roopa Shahapur, Venkataramana Kandi, Tarun Kumar Suvvari, Sabitha Vadakedath

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Article in Cureus, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Praveen R ShahapurMicrobiology, BLDE (Deemed to be University) Shri B. M. Patil Medical College, Vijayapur, IND.
Roopa ShahapurDentistry, BLDE (Deemed to be University) Shri B. M. Patil Medical College, Vijayapura, IND.
Venkataramana KandiClinical Microbiology, Prathima Institute of Medical Sciences, Karimnagar, IND.
Tarun Kumar SuvvariMedicine and Surgery, Rangaraya Medical College, Kakinada, IND.
Sabitha VadakedathBiochemistry, Prathima Institute of Medical Sciences, Karimnagar, IND.
Institute of Medical Sciences · INRangaraya Medical College · INShri BM Patil Medical College · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) that emerged from the Chinese mainland has spread throughout the world affecting the normal lives of the people. Both developed and developing nations have been equally affected and coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) resulted in the death of millions of people worldwide. The virus is undergoing mutations and is evolving into variants that are responsible for wave after wave. This study was carried out to assess the clinical outcomes of people infected with the novel virus during the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India. Methods The study was carried out between November 2021 and January 2022 and included 100 consecutive patients attending the hospital attached to the BLDE (Deemed to be University) Shri B.M. Patil Medical College, Bijapur, Karnataka, South India. All patients included in the study returned a positive report in a real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). The patient details collected included age, sex, cycle threshold (Ct) values for envelope (E)/nucleocapsid (N), and Orf1b (open reading frame 1b) genes, hospitalization status, vaccine status, C-reactive protein (CRP), D-dimer, interleukin-6 (IL-6), and final clinical outcome. The data were entered into Microsoft Office Excel sheets, and statistical inferences were drawn using SPSS 24 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY). Results Of the 100 patients included in the study, only 14 (14%) patients were vaccinated. The patient's mean age was 34.22±17.50. Among the vaccinated patients, the majority had taken COVISHIELD™ (85.71%) compared to COVAXIN

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clinical outcomescovid-19indiapandemicsars-cov-2third wavevaccination

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PMID35971342
PMCPMC9373877
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