A tale of two variants: Spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants Alpha in Geneva, Switzerland, and Beta in South Africa

CL Althaus, S Baggio, ML Reichmuth, EB Hodcroft… - MedRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
… We then estimated the fitness advantage of the two variants … We compared the fitness
advantage of both variants at … the further spread of these and other SARS-CoV-2 variants. …

Importation of Alpha and Delta variants during the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Switzerland: Phylogenetic analysis and intervention scenarios

ML Reichmuth, EB Hodcroft, CL Althaus - PLoS pathogens, 2023 - journals.plos.org
… , population-based transmission model for SARS-CoV-2 in Switzerland that was described
tale of two variants: Spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants Alpha in Geneva, Switzerland, and Beta

… , virological and serological investigation into a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak (Alpha variant) in a primary school in Geneva, Switzerland: a prospective longitudinal study

E Lorthe, M Bellon, G Michielin, J Berthelot, ME Zaballa… - MedRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
… of many respiratory viral diseases, including beta-coronaviruses and influenza virus, both
of the overall community SARS-CoV-2 transmission [13]. Yet, almost two years into the …

SARS-CoV-2 variant Alpha has a spike-dependent replication advantage over the ancestral B. 1 strain in human cells with low ACE2 expression

D Niemeyer, S Stenzel, T Veith, S Schroeder… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
… In contrast, VOC Beta RBD was clearly more resistant to … spread and/or increased pathogenicity
of SARS-CoV-2 VOC … from Epithelix Sàrl, Geneva Switzerland. All other experiments …

Biological properties of SARS-CoV-2 variants: epidemiological impact and clinical consequences

R Hoteit, HM Yassine - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
… , including two alpha-CoVs and five beta-coronaviruses (β-… suggested that the Beta variant
had a transmission rate of 23… A report on SARS-CoV-2 variant transmission in Switzerland

Epidemiological, virological and serological investigation of a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak (Alpha variant) in a primary school: A prospective longitudinal study

E Lorthe, M Bellon, G Michielin, J Berthelot, ME Zaballa… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
… including beta-coronaviruses and influenza virus, both within … when symptomatic, including
in Switzerland [12]. These … in Geneva, and the risk of introduction of SARS-CoV-2 into the …

Global landscape of SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance and data sharing

Z Chen, AS Azman, X Chen, J Zou, Y Tian, R Sun… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
… with the Alpha variant 6,7 , whereas the Beta variant has been … infection or vaccination 8
, both reflected in lower vaccine … identification and spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants. These …

Rapid replacement of the Beta variant by the Delta variant in South Africa

H Tegally, E Wilkinson, CL Althaus, M Giovanetti… - MedRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
… of the previously dominant Alpha variant in countries such as … that the Beta variant was
associated with a transmission … Delta SARS-CoV-2 sequences that were used in the present …

[PDF][PDF] The Omicron variant breaks the evolutionary lineage of SARS-CoV-2 variants

JC Perez, V Lounnas, M Montagnier - International Journal of …, 2021 - academia.edu
… second sister-clade 21L (USA, Switzerland, UK). We applied, at … the preceding ALPHA,
BETA, GAMMA and DELTA variants. … put the two-fold question of transmission and pathogenicity …

A review of epidemiology, clinical features and disease course, transmission dynamics, and neutralization efficacy of SARS-CoV-2 variants

P Deb, MMA Molla, KM Saif-Ur-Rahman… - The Egyptian Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
… other countries such as Denmark, Switzerland, and the USA [… in individuals infected with the
beta variant could be found as of … Regarding alpha and beta variants, 12 mAbs were directed …