Reactivation of herpes virus in times of pandemic by SARS-CoV-2

In the Chinese city of Wuhan at the end of 2019, an infection by an unknown virus began, which with subsequent studies was called SARS-CoV-2, causing a pandemic that has generated the largest crisis worldwide in recent years, causing a large number of deaths, with multiple systemic manifestations but which has also had clinical pictures at the skin level;recently there have been reports of people who had COVID-19 infections and later had skin manifestations due to herpes virus as a co-infection;the most frequent were herpes simplex type 1-2, varicella zoster, herpes zoster and herpes virus 6-7, generating even more complications in patients. Although the pathogenesis of this association is not entirely clear, it is believed to be secondary to the state of immunosuppression induced by SARS-CoV-2, being important that health personnel are informed about this entity that increases mortality.

Museum education: building the capacity of society and its members

This essay examines how museums build capacity among both museum visitors and staff before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic, building upon John Dewey's view of an individual's capacity as ability and power. © 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Reclassification of Infectious Disease in the Mondo Disease Ontology

The Mondo Disease Ontology (Mondo) represents cross-species diseases, which integrates several source disease terminologies to represent cross-species diseases, and provides precise semantic mappings to the original sources. Mondo spans both rare and 'common' diseases, as well as monogenic, acquired, neoplasms, infectious diseases, and more. Mondo is a community resource and is continuously updated and iteratively curated. Recent efforts sought to improve the representation of viral infectious diseases in Mondo, to properly represent primary infections, diseases caused by reactivation of a latent virus, such as shingles and diseases caused by aftereffects of a primary infection such as long COVID-19. This included the addition of new classes and new relations (object properties), and the creation of new design patterns. © 2021 Copyright for this paper by its authors.