HIV HGM Biobank As a Research Platform for Paediatric Infectious Diseases and COVID-19 Pandemic

Overview

Journal AIDS Res Ther

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2022 May 25

PMID 35614512

Authors

Consuegra Irene

Mauleon Elba

Jose Luis Jimenez

Maria Jose Mellado

Maria Angeles Munoz-Fernandez

Affiliations

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Abstract

Aim: The initial cases of COVID-19 appeared in December 2019 and Spain was one of the most affected countries during the first wave (March to June). Since then, HIV HGM BioBank has been restructured as an established Paediatrics and Adults HIV_COVID-19 BioBank that aims at the long-term storage of samples obtained from not only HIV-1, but also from COVID-19 patients and HIV-1_COVID-19 coinfected patients.

Methods: HIV HGM BioBank holds high quality biological samples from newborns, children, adolescents and adults with their associated clinical data. Research groups trying to establish large networks focused on research on specific clinical problems in epidemiology, biology, routes of transmission and therapies, are potential users of the clinical samples and of associated data of HIV-1_COVID-19 HGM BioBank.

Results: The HIV HGM BioBank is an academic and ethical enterprise complying with all the legal regulatory rules to provide service to the society. HIV_COVID-19 HGM BioBank has been repurposed to offer an important resource for global research of COVID-19 in newborns, children, adolescents, adults and elders to study the biological effect of the pandemic.

Conclusion: Herein, we present a description of how HIV HGM BioBank has rapidly become an indispensable structure in modern biomedical research, including COVID-19 research.

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