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BACKGROUND Elimination of mother to child transmission of human immune virus was a global public health priority. In 2013, the World Health Organization recommended antiretroviral therapy administration to all of human immune virus positive pregnant and breastfeeding women regardless of the CD4 cell count or clinical stage, which referred to "Option B+". Ethiopia had a high prevalence of mother to child transmission of human immune virus. The prevalence of the transmission on breastfeeding mothers was 24% in 2012. However, the prevalence increased to more than 30% in 2015. Thus, the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of human immune virus transmission and its association among infants born from human immune virus positive mothers, who enrolled to all the Amhara regional state referral hospitals prevention of mother to child transmission departments, Ethiopia. METHODS The study was done in the five Amhara regional state referral hospitals' prevention of mother to child transmission of human immuoption "B+" guideline's expected outcome on human immune virus transmission, in this study, the cumulative incidence of human immune virus transmission at completing the program and the overall prevalence of human immune virus infection was high. Although, there was a significant reduction in mother to child transmission of human immune virus as pieces of literature showed, there are still considerable challenges of prevention of mother to child transmission in the Amhara region. BACKGROUND The presence of pre-existing chikungunya virus (CHIKV) neutralizing antibodies (Nab) has been associated with decreased risk of symptomatic CHIKV infection in a longitudinal cohort from Cebu City, Philippines. However, the relationship between pre-existing Nab and risk of subclinical seroconversion has not been well described. METHODS Data were analyzed from a longitudinal cohort aged 6 months to 83 years who underwent active fever surveillance in Cebu City, Philippines from 2012-14. Participants with fever history underwent acute and 3-week convalescent visits with blood collection, and annual visits at baseline, 12 months and 24 months. Symptomatic CHIKV infections were detected by PCR of acute illness sera. Subclinical seroconversions were defined as ≥8-fold rise in 80% plaque reduction neutralization test (PRNT80) titer between annual visits without intervening symptomatic infection. FINDINGS Among 854 participants who completed the 12-month visit (year 1) and 765 who completed the 24-month visit (year 2), 25 symptomatic CHIKV infections and 104 subclinical seroconversions occurred among 615 individuals with no detectable pre-year Nab in year 1 and 444 in year 2, while no symptomatic infections and one subclinical seroconversion occurred in those with pre-year PRNT80 titer ≥110. Pre-year PRNT80 titer ≥110 was associated with zero relative risk of symptomatic CHIKV infection and 0.018 risk of subclinical seroconversion. INTERPRETATION The presence of detectable pre-existing CHIKV Nab correlated with decreased risk of both symptomatic CHIKV infection and subclinical seroconversion. These findings support the potential use of CHIKV Nab titer as a surrogate endpoint for protection from infection for vaccine development. BACKGROUND The rapid spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by a zoonotic beta-coronavirus entitled 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), has become a global threat. Awareness of the biological features of 2019-nCoV should be updated in time and needs to be comprehensively summarized to help optimize control measures and make therapeutic decisions. METHODS Based on recently published literatures, official documents and selected up-to-date preprint studies, we reviewed the virology and origin, epidemiology, clinical manifestations, pathology and treatment of 2019-nCoV infection, in comparison with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection. RESULTS The genome of 2019-nCoV partially resembled SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, and indicating a bat origin. The COVID-19 generally had a high reproductive number, a long incubation period, a short serial interval and a low case fatality rate (much higher in patients with comorbidities) than SARS and MERS. Clinical presentation and pathology of COVID-19 greatly resembled SARS and MERS, with less upper respiratory and gastrointestinal symptoms, and more exudative lesions in post-mortems. Potential treatments included remdesivir, chloroquine, tocilizumab, convalescent plasma and vaccine immunization (when possible). CONCLUSION The initial experience from the current pandemic and lessons from the previous two pandemics can help improve future preparedness plans and combat disease progression. GNE-781 clinical trial The megapinosome is an endocytic cell organel that we observed in human macrophages with electron microscopy. In a previous work we showed that it is formed by an endocytic event that we called megapinocytosis. The megapinosome is filled with a membrane surrounded trabecular meshwork that is topologically part of the cytosol. In this work we used scanning transmission electron tomography on high pressure frozen and freeze substituted human macrophages in order to unravel the three-dimensional structure of both the megapinosome and the adjacent structures. The megapinosome consists of the trabecular meshwork and the lacunae which are connected with and topologically equivalent to the cytosol. The surrounding lumen is topologically equivalent to the structures of the vesicular pathway. In addition, we show the connections of the trabecular meshwork with the cytosol and the connection of the megapinosomes to a complex tubular and cisternal system covering a large part of the macrophages that we named megapinosome complex. We assume that our methodological approach, based on high pressure freezing from a defined physiological state and three-dimensional imaging, renders the tubular components of the macrophages better visible than the classical two-dimensional imaging of chemically fixed cells used as a "blueprint" for textbook illustrations. The cell biological functions of the megapinosome are largely enigmatic. Probably, megapinosomes assures storage of surface membranes that can be promptly made available when a macrophage needs to change shape to move through a tissue, to uptake extracellular material or dead cells as well as to fight against microbes.