Timing of immune response to COVID-19 may contribute to disease severity Posted: 01 May 2020 03:43 PM PDT A new study suggests that temporarily suppressing the body's immune system during the early stages of COVID-19 could help a patient avoid severe symptoms. That's because the research shows that an interaction between the body's two main lines of defense may be causing the immune system to go into overdrive in some patients. Source: https://bit.ly/2WA5iFU Hydroxychloroquine linked to increased risk of cardiac arrhythmias Posted: 01 May 2020 03:42 PM PDT In a new report, a team of pharmacists and clinicians found evidence suggesting that patients who received hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 were at increased risk of electrical changes to the heart and cardiac arrhythmias. The combination of hydroxychloroquine with azithromycin was linked to even greater changes compared to hydroxychloroquine alone Source: https://bit.ly/2WF8RdV High blood pressure medications safe for patients with COVID-19 disease, study finds Posted: 01 May 2020 03:42 PM PDT Despite concerns expressed by some experts, common high blood pressure drugs did not increase the risk of contracting COVID-19 -- or of developing severe disease -- in a study of 12,594 patients. Source: https://bit.ly/2SNjWIy
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THE FOLLOWING FRIENDS OF THE FUCOBI FOUNDATION NOMINATED OVER 30 PEOPLE FOR 2020 NSA MEMBERSHIPS:10/22/2020
The membership fees ($50 or $95 each) were donated/paid to NSA Treasurer by Environmental Genomics Inc. (EGI) on behalf of the FUCOBI Foundation. Congratulations to Miriam, Marcelo, Lisett, Mayra, Gober y Martha for their assistance, they will receive a free 2020 NSA membership with access to the Journal of Shellfish Research and the National Shellfisheries Association Quarterly Newsletter. Congratulations to them! Please nominate 5 new people for 2021 NSA members and you will receive a free 2021 NSA membership!. ‘UNA SALUD / ONE HEALTH EPIDEMIOLOGY: CORONAVIRUS IN WASTEWATER OF SELECTED TOWNS OF ECUADOR'.10/22/2020 This project aims to carry out a diagnosis to detect the coronavirus in wastewater from selected cities in Ecuador. The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, can be transmitted through the digestive system and could end up in the aquatic ecosystem environment.
The results will help local authorities plan for COVID-19 before symptoms of the disease appear, and save lives. Those interested in participating in this project, please contact Mrs. Miriam Alcivar Arteaga ([email protected]), President of FUCOBI, who will be in charge of coordinating the sampling Here are the Selected papers included in FUCOBI's project about coronavirus in wastewater: Naddeu V and H Liu. 2020. Editorial Perspectives: 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2): what is its fate in urban water cycle and how can the water research community respond?. DOI: 10.1039/D0EW90015J (Editorial) Environ. Sci.: Water Res.Technol., 2020, Advance Article https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2020/ew/d0ew90015j?page=search#imgfig1 \n Wu F, A Xiao, J Zhang, X Gu, WL Lee, K Kauffman, W Hanage, M Matus, N Ghaeli, N Endo, C Duvallet, K Moniz, T Erickson, P Chai, J Thompson, E Alm. 2020. SARS-CoV-2 titers in wastewater are higher than expected from clinically confirmed cases. doi:https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.05.20051540 Hart OE, RU Halden. 2020. Computational analysis of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 surveillance by wastewater-based epidemiology locally and globally: Feasibility, economy, opportunities and challenges. Science of The Total Environment, 2020; 138875 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138875. Bill Gates. 2020., Pandemic I: The First Modern Pandemic file:///C:/Users/envir/Downloads/Pandemic-I-The-First-Modern-Pandemic.pdf Mao K, H Zhang and Z Yang. Can a paper-based device trace COVID-19 sources with wastewater-based Epidemiology? Environmental Science & Technology, 2020; DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c01174 Guerrero S. 2020. Coronavirus en Ecuador: una opinión desde la Academia. La Granja: Revista de Ciencias de la Vida. Vol. 32(2):xxx-xxx. http://doi.org/10.17163/lgr.n32.2020.10. Zambrano-Monserrate MA, MA Ruano, L Sanchez-Alcalde. 2020. Indirect effects of COVID-19 on the environment. Science of The Total Environment Volume 728, 1 August 2020, 138813 Abstract
Mangroves in the Northwest Coast of South America are contaminated with heavy metals due to wastewater discharges from industries, affecting the biota from this environment. However, bacteria proliferate in these harsh environmental conditions becoming possible sentinel of these contaminations. In this study, bacterial community composition was analyzed by throughput sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene from polluted and pristine mangrove sediments affected by marked differences in heavy metal concentrations. Core bacteria were dominated by Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, and Bacteroidetes phyla, with strong differences between sites at class and genus levels, correlated with metal levels. Increment of abundance on specific OTUs were associated with either elevated or decreased concentrations of metals and with the sulfur cycle. The abundance of Sulfurovum lithotrophicum, Leptolinea tardivitalis, Desulfococcus multivorans and Aminobacterium colombiense increases when metals rise. On contrary, Bacillus stamsii, Nioella nitrareducens and Clostridiisalibacter paucivorans abundance increases when metal levels are reduced. We propose these OTUs as bacterial sentinels, whose abundance can help monitor the restoration programs of contaminated mangrove sediments in the future. The FUCOBI Foundation has announced two research and travel awards for minority students from Latin America and the Caribbean, the United States (Puerto Rico, Native Americans, and the Pacific Islands), and African countries to attend the 113th Annual Meeting in Charlotte. The Johnnie Castro Montealegre Travel Award will cover airfare (within the USA only), meeting registration fee, hotel, travel costs, meals, and poster printing. The Jimmy Alcivar-Arteaga Research and Travel Award will cover airfare, travel, meals, poster printing, and meeting registration fee. Application deadline is October 1st, 2020.
Students interested in applying for the Johnnie Castro Montealegre Travel Award, please contact [email protected] to request an application. Please also include your CV and an abstract with all co-authors (ready for submission to the NSA annual meeting, 250-words). Students interested in applying for the Jimmy Alcivar-Arteaga Research and Travel Award, please contact [email protected] to request an application. There are thirty awards available. Please include an abstract with all co-authors (ready for submission to the NSA annual meeting, 250-words). Abstracts submitted on the following topics will be given priority, but awards are not limited to these topics: 1) Metals, glyphosate, Roundup, and bisphenol in mangrove sediment near banana and shrimp farms, and in cow’s milk, cheese, and agricultural soil; 2) Toxicological transgenerational epigenetic inheritance (F0-F3) to assess health risks caused by exposure to glyphosate and Roundup to marine animals (shrimp, molluscs) and people who live near estuaries and wetlands; 3) Glyphosate-free aquaculture feeds; and 4) Glyphosate-free shrimp. This is a great opportunity for NSA student members. The Johnnie Castro Montealegre Travel Award was presented to Melissa Pierce at the 108th Annual Meeting for her project ‘Bivalves maintain a core gut micro biome: seasonal trends and species variation’, to Amanda Zahorik at the 109th Annual Meeting for her project ‘The oyster microbiome: interrelationships among host genotype, microbiome composition, and disease resistance in Crassostrea virginica’, and to Natalie Lowell for her project ‘Population genetics of two emergent shellfish aquaculture species and implications for genetic risk assessments’ at the Triennial in 2019. Students are encouraged to apply! Information is also available on the NSA website: www.shellfish.org. ‘UNA SALUD / ONE HEALTH EPIDEMIOLOGY: CORONAVIRUS IN WASTEWATER OF SELECTED PEOPLES IN ECUADOR '10/22/2020 We are purchasing 100 diagnostic kits to detect coronavirus in wastewater from selected cities in Ecuador. The kit was developed by a Massachusetts (MA) company, Biobot Analytics (https://www.biobot.io/about_us)1, in collaboration with researchers from MIT, Harvard, and B&W Hospital. The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, can be transmitted through the digestive system and could end up in the aquatic ecosystem environment, as shown in Figure 1 of the Naddeu & Liu paper.2 The kit was tested first in wastewater collected from a major urban treatment facility in MA. We hope that these kits will detect the virus in sewage from selected towns where human diagnostic tests have not yet been performed. The results will be published immediately on the FUCOBI website and sent to government offices and universities for further epidemiological studies. Source: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2020/ew/d0ew90015j?page=search#imgfig1 The results will help local authorities plan for COVID-19 before symptoms of the disease appear, and save lives. Interested in participating in this project, please contact Mrs. Miriam Alcivar Arteaga ([email protected]), President of FUCOBI, who will be in charge of distributing the kits to the local authorities in charge of the wastewater facilities, university professors , drinking water and sewerage companies, NGOs and citizens interested in helping to collect the samples. Join the project, participate with samples from your city. This is a project that applies the holistic concept of epidemiological 'ONE HEALTH' to help save the lives of Ecuadorians. The Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 dashboard shows that Ecuador has had 10,850 confirmed cases and 573 deaths from COVID-19.
ut a report in the newspaper El Comercio suggests a higher number of deaths, which was documented in videos from Yahoo! and BBC. Below you can find the related links: John’s Hopkins University, COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering, 4/21/2020: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 El Comercio, Quito, Ecuador. 4/20/2020: https://www.elcomercio.com/actualidad/guayas-registra-fallecidos-incremento-coronavirus.html Videos about Ecuador's COVID-19 pandemic https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-nightmare-ecuadors-main-city-203016125.html https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-52324218?intlink_from_url= https://www.bbc.com/news/world/latin_america&link_location=live-reporting-story Friends of FUCOBI help to buy reagents for RT-qPCR tests to detect coronavirus in humans and animals in the US. The aid will be delivered to university laboratories that have the PCR equipment to process the diagnosis of COVID-19 with the qRT-PCR technique in humans. For more information, please contact our collaborator in Massachusetts, Dr. Acacia Alcivar-Warren: [email protected].
For more information, please contact our collaborator in Massachusetts, Dr. Acacia Alcivar-Warren: [email protected] We recommend reading the following article on coronavirus gene sequences (RdRp) in China carp mRNA: Conway MJ. Identification of coronavirus sequences in carp cDNA from Wuhan, China: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.2575 |
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