[HTML][HTML] Strain wars 2: Binding constants, enthalpies, entropies, Gibbs energies and rates of binding of SARS-CoV-2 variants

M Popovic - Virology, 2022 - Elsevier
… Thus, one of the goals of this paper is to analyze the influence of kinetics on infectivity of
SARS-CoV-2 strains, through binding phenomenological coefficients, L B . Moreover, a model is …

Emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2 and its public health implications

ARR Freitas, M Giovanetti, LCJ Alcantara - InterAmerican Journal of …, 2021 - iajmh.com
… Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, we find that since the beginning of the emergence of P.1 and P.2
strains in October 2020, in just 4 months these strains corresponded together for 75 % of all …

Strain Wars: Competitive interactions between SARS-CoV-2 strains are explained by Gibbs energy of antigen-receptor binding

M Popovic, M Popovic - Microbial risk analysis, 2022 - Elsevier
… of the same virus is the result of interference with other (less advantageous) strains of SARS
CoV-2 virus and replacement of older with a new strain. Viral interference is a phenomenon …

SARSCoV2 infection among hospitalised pregnant women and impact of different viral strains on COVID19 severity in Italy: a national prospective population …

…, ItOSS‐COVID19 Working Group… - … Journal of Obstetrics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… The primary aim of this article was to describe SARS-CoV-2 infection among pregnant
women during the wild-type and Alpha-variant periods in Italy. The secondary aim was to …

[HTML][HTML] The incubation period of the SARS-CoV-2 B1. 1.7 variant is shorter than that of other strains

Y Homma, T Katsuta, H Oka, K Inoue… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
coronavirus infections caused by the B.1.1.7 variant and patients infected with other SARS-CoV-2
strains … by the whole-genome sequences of the strain. The study included only patients …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern 202012/01 has about twofold replicative advantage and acquires concerning mutations

F Grabowski, G Preibisch, S Giziński, M Kochańczyk… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
… a priori we assume that genomes of two compared strains in each week of the considered …
, where n x and n y are the numbers of two compared strain genomes (eg, VOC and 20A.EU1). …

Molecular detection of SARSCoV2 strains and differentiation of Delta variant strains

V Hamill, L Noll, N Lu, WNT Tsui… - Transboundary and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
SARS-CoV-2 strains, suspected false negative results from some PCR assays have been
predicted (Zitek, 2020). A strain coverage analysis of current SARS-CoV-2 … in reducing strain

Variation and multilevel selection of SARS-CoV-2

NW Blackstone, SR Blackstone, AT Berg - Evolution, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… with great precision case fatality ratio for COVID-19 (1%), … by a particular strain or strains
of SARS-CoV-2, which purely by … associated with other SARS-CoV-2 strains that are affecting …

Protective activity of mRNA vaccines against ancestral and variant SARS-CoV-2 strains

B Ying, B Whitener, LA VanBlargan… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
… Infection of 129S2 mice with SARS-CoV-2 results in mild to moderate lung infection and …
we expected a greater frequency of breakthrough infections after SARS-CoV-2 challenge of this …

The emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

A Sanyaolu, C Okorie, A Marinkovic… - Therapeutic …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
… Health Organization to officially sanction the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak as a pandemic, … strains
of the virus emerging in various parts of the world, with some strains displaying even greater