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    Infectious virus shedding duration reflects secretory IgA antibody response latency after SARS-CoV-2 infection

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    新型コロナウイルス排出と粘膜抗体の関係を解明 --呼吸器ウイルスのヒト間伝播を制御・予防する第一歩--. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2023-12-25.Articles: Infectious virus shedding duration reflects secretory IgA antibody response latency after SARS-CoV-2 infection. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2023-12-25.Infectious virus shedding from individuals infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is used to estimate human-to-human transmission risk. Control of SARS-CoV-2 transmission requires identifying the immune correlates that protect infectious virus shedding. Mucosal immunity prevents infection by SARS-CoV-2, which replicates in the respiratory epithelium and spreads rapidly to other hosts. However, whether mucosal immunity prevents the shedding of the infectious virus in SARS-CoV-2-infected individuals is unknown. We examined the relationship between viral RNA shedding dynamics, duration of infectious virus shedding, and mucosal antibody responses during SARS-CoV-2 infection. Anti-spike secretory IgA antibodies (S-IgA) reduced viral RNA load and infectivity more than anti-spike IgG/IgA antibodies in infected nasopharyngeal samples. Compared with the IgG/IgA response, the anti-spike S-IgA post-infection responses affected the viral RNA shedding dynamics and predicted the duration of infectious virus shedding regardless of the immune history. These findings highlight the importance of anti-spike S-IgA responses in individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 for preventing infectious virus shedding and SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Developing medical countermeasures to shorten S-IgA response time may help control human-to-human transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection and prevent future respiratory virus pandemics

    Development of Analytical Methods for Free-MgO in Steelmaking Slag

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    インドネシアMakassar市の自動車騒音低減のためのTDM-TMSの提案

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    The objective of this paper is to propose travel demand management (TDM) and traffic management system (TMS) strategies in order to mitigate the road traffic noise (RTN) in Makassar City, Indonesia. The TDM-TMS strategies involve three in one car, two in one motorcycle, prohibition of horn sound, and Bus Rapid Transit. The ASJ RTN-Model 2008 is used to predict the RTN and GIS is applied to evaluate the effectiveness of various TDM-TMS scenarios as well as the present condition. The results show the TDM-TMS strategies as a noise measure provide noise reduction of about 6dB, and it is significant and sufficient effectiveness in reducing the RTN in Makassar. The authors wish that the results of this study give a suggestion for transportation policy to reduce the RTN reduction in the future in Makassar City
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