RT Conference Proceedings
T1 SARS-CoV-2 in Paraguay: Immune Response Characteristics
A1 Samudio, Angélica
A1 López, Jorge
A1 Zelada, Ofelia
A1 Figueredo, Diego Daniel
A1 Vargas, Elsie
A1 Ramírez Pastore, Leticia
A1 Lee, Natalia
A1 Weeby, Richard
A1 Caniza, Miguel
A1 Cabrera de Rojas, Natalia
A1 Aguilar Barreto, Gloria
A1 Avila Pedretti, Gabriela
A2 Universidad Nacional de Asunción – Facultad de Ciencias Médicas
A2 St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital (US)
AB The region has been severely affected by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, including Paraguay; with population of around 7MM, has about 80M cases, and 2M deaths, with increasing cases affecting healthcare resources acutely.A national response to mitigate the effects of the pandemic has been conducting therapeutic studies, including an open label therapeutic effectiveness study of the administration of convalescent plasma transfusion (CPT).The main objective of the CPT study is to evaluate the effectiveness of CPT in reducing mortality in hospitalized patients diagnosed with COVID-19.Recipients of CPT had a mortality of 7.1% during hospitalization compared to the control which had a mortality of 25%. This difference was not seen once they were admitted to the ICU.The ultimate purpose of the proposed study is to gather critical information that will be relevant in better understanding the immune response and the designing of preventive and therapeutic interventions.
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14066/3456
UL http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14066/3456
LA eng
NO CONACYT - Consejo Nacional de Ciencias y Tecnología
DS MINDS@UW
RD 21-nov-2024