A5042486005- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes
- Biosensors and Analytical Detection
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies
- Coal and Its By-products
- Fire dynamics and safety research
- Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
- Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Respiratory viral infections research
- Combustion and flame dynamics
- Advanced Biosensing Techniques and Applications
- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds
- COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
- Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research
- COVID-19 impact on air quality
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Recycling and utilization of industrial and municipal waste in materials production
National Taiwan University Hospital
2020-2025
National Cheng Kung University
2014-2024
Children's Hospital
2016
National Taiwan University
2015
Background Frontline health care workers, including physicians, are at high risk of contracting coronavirus disease (COVID-19) owing to their exposure patients suspected having COVID-19. Objective The aim this study was evaluate the benefits and feasibility a double triage telemedicine protocol in improving infection control emergency department (ED). Methods In retrospective study, we recruited aged ≥20 years referred ED National Taiwan University Hospital between March 1 April 30, 2020. A...
This multicenter, retrospective study included 346 serum samples from 74 patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and 194 non-COVID-19 to evaluate the performance of five anti-severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2) antibody tests, i.e. two chemiluminescence immunoassays (CLIAs): Roche Elecsys® Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Test (Roche Test) Abbott SARS-CoV-2 IgG (Abbott Test), three lateral flow (LFIAs): Wondfo Antibody (Wondfo ASK COVID-19 IgG/IgM Rapid (ASK Dynamiker 2019-nCoV...
This study investigated the AQI (air quality index) and atmospheric pollutants including PM2.5, PM10, CO, SO2, NO2 O3 in Chongqing, Luzhou Chengdu from 2017 to 2019. In addition, impacts of COVID-19 event on air three cities 2020 were compared discussed. For combined AQIs for cities, spring, daily ranged between 25 182 averaged 72.1. summer, 24 206 77.5. autumn, 22 170 61.1, winter, 28 375 99.6. The distributions six classes spring 3%, 94%, 0%, 0%; they 11%, 74%, 15%, 0% 29%, 70%, 1%, 52%,...
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a major pathogen causing significant mortality and morbidity in immunocompromised hosts. It important to find risk factors associated with CMV viremia its outcome.We investigated the incidence, time of onset, for viremia, characteristics diseases 57 pediatric patients receiving hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Between August 2011 March 2014, cases HSCT at National Taiwan University Children's Hospital were reviewed. Viremia was identified by plasma...
In this study, the atmospheric PM2.5, increases/decreases of PM2.5/PM10 ratio, total PCDD/Fs-TEQ concentrations, PM2.5-bound content, and PCDD/F gas-particle partition in Taiwan were investigated for period 2013 to 2017. Taiwan, annual average PM2.5 concentrations found be 28.9, 24.1, 21.4, 20.2, 19.9 µg m–3 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, respectively, which indicated that variations levels decreasing during study period. The increases (+)/decreases (–) –16.7%, –11.1%, –5.75%, –1.73% from...
Herpes zoster is rare in healthy children, but immunocompromised persons have an increased risk of herpes and severe diseases. Considering the very limited information on children with cancer, we performed a nationwide population-based cohort study to estimate incidence cancer explore association between 2 Data were obtained from National Health Research Institutes Database Taiwan. A total 4432 newly diagnosed 2000 2007 identified as cohort, 17,653 without frequency-matched by sex age at...
An outbreak of influenza virus infection occurred in Taiwan from October 2013 to May 2014. We conducted a clinical study identify risk factors associated with severe infections children.During the period, data 110 hospitalized children were collected. analyzed data, need for intensive care, and patient outcome features infections, defined as care.Of inpatients, there 57 male 53 female patients; median age was 2.6 (interquartile range, 1.0-6.3) years. Nineteen patients required care two died....
The COVID-19 epidemic discovered and reported at the end of December 2019 began spreading rapidly around world. impact event on trip intensity, AQI (air quality index), air pollutants, including PM2.5, PM10, SO2, CO, NO2, O3 in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Foshan (the so-called 'three cities') from January 12 to March 27, 2020, are compared discussed. In combined intensity three cities ranged between 0.73 5.54 averaged 2.57, which was 28.4% lower than that 2019. terms AQIs for cities, 26, daily 21.0...
Illegal harvesting and recycling of waste cooking oil, also referred to as "gutter oil" in many countries, poses a great food safety threat. Thus, this study the feasibility using oil an auxiliary fuel furnace laboratory incinerator was evaluated terms toxic pollutant emissions. Two blends (W20D80 W40D60) were blended from varying proportions diesel (D100), (W100) their physio-chemical characteristics subsequently determined compared. Thermogravimetry analysis (TGA) derivative...
Laboratory wastes are discharged from experimental, testing, or analysis processes, and contain various toxic chemical compounds with a high heating-value chlorine content (> 9%). Elevated PCDD/F (polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin furan) emissions during start-up stages caused by combustion of waste contents, incomplete combustion, so called "memory effects". Even though the duration cold is short compared hours continuous steady operation in incinerator, its negative effects regard to on...
The World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreaks a global pandemic.1Mahase E. Covid-19: WHO declares pandemic because of "alarming levels" spread, severity, and inaction.BMJ. 2020; 368: m1036Crossref PubMed Scopus (445) Google Scholar,2Zhu N. Zhang D. Wang W. et al.A from patients with pneumonia in China, 2019.N Engl J Med. 382: 727-733Crossref (18719) Scholar To avoid contamination to protect health care workers, we designed unique patient...
Accurate detection of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies provides a more accurate estimation incident cases, epidemic dynamics, and risk community transmission. We conducted cross-sectional seroprevalence study specifically targeting different populations to examine the performance pandemic control in Taiwan: symptomatic patients with epidemiological negative qRT-PCR test (Group P), frontline healthcare workers H), healthy adult citizens C), participants prior virologically-confirmed severe acute...
The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant pandemic struck Taiwan in April 2022. Rapid antigen tests (RATs) play an important role providing rapid results during a pandemic. However, self-collected samples by the children's caregivers without supervision of medical personnel raise some concerns.This study was performed to investigate household transmission, clinical characteristics, and performance special COVID-19 family clinic hospital. at-home RATs evaluated based on reverse transcription-polymerase...
Our study goals were to evaluate the diagnostic performance of four anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies tests and differences in dynamic immune responses between COVID-19 patients with without pneumonia. We collected 184 serum samples from 70 consecutively qRT-PCR-confirmed at participating hospitals 23 January 2020 30 September 2020. pneumonia was defined as presence new pulmonary infiltration. Serum grouped by duration after symptom onset on a weekly basis for antibody testing analysis. The...