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18. BREATHING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN PARKS

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Bianco, Pietro Massimiliano, Cariñanos, Paloma, Casares-Porcel, Manuel, Semenzato, Paolo, Calaza-Martínez, Pedro, Andreucci, María Beatrice, Branquinho, Cristina, Mexia, Teresa, Anjos, Andreia, Gonçalves, Paula, Correia, Otilia, Grilo, Filipa, Santos-Reis, Margarida, Acil, Nezha, Paoletti, Elena, Carrari, Elisa, Gonçalves, Artur, Castro, José, Chiesura, Anna, Mirabile, Marzia, Brini, Silvia, and Castro, Enrico

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2017
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25. Semen quality as a potential susceptibility indicator to SARS-CoV-2 insults in polluted areas

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Pietro Massimiliano Bianco, Oriana Motta, Marina Piscopo, Luigi Montano, Gennaro Lettieri, Francesco Donato, Ian Marc Bonapace, Antonino Guglielmino, Montano, Luigi, Donato, Francesco, Bianco, Pietro Massimiliano, Lettieri, Gennaro, Guglielmino, Antonino, Motta, Oriana, Bonapace, Ian Marc, and Piscopo, Marina

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Male, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Population, Environmental pollution, Review Article, Population health, 010501 environmental sciences, Air pollution, COVID-19, Environmental marker, Health marker, Oxidative stress, SARS-CoV-2, Semen quality, Disease Outbreaks, Humans, Semen Analysis, Air Pollution, 01 natural sciences, 03 medical and health sciences, Environmental health, Environmental Chemistry, Medicine, education, 030304 developmental biology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Pollutant, 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, business.industry, Mortality rate, Outbreak, General Medicine, Pollution, Review article, Oxidative stre, business
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The epidemic of the new severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has impacted worldwide with its infectious spread and mortality rate. Thousands of articles have been published to tackle this crisis and many of these have indicated that high air pollution levels may be a contributing factor to high outbreak rates of COVID-19. Atmospheric pollutants, indeed, producing oxidative stress, inflammation, immuno-unbalance, and systemic coagulation, may be a possible significant co-factor of further damage, rendering the body prone to infections by a variety of pathogens, including viruses. Spermatozoa are extremely responsive to prooxidative effects produced by environmental pollutants and may serve as a powerful alert that signals the extent that environmental pressure, in a specific area, is doing damage to humans. In order to improve our current knowledge on this topic, this review article summarizes the relevant current observations emphasizing the weight that environmental pollution has on the sensitivity of a given population to several diseases and how semen quality, may be a potential indicator of sensitivity for virus insults (including SARS-CoV-2) in high polluted areas, and help to predict the risk for harmful effects of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic. In addition, this review focused on the potential routes of virus transmission that may represent a population health risk and also identified the areas of critical importance that require urgent research to assess and manage the COVID-19 outbreak.

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2021

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