Comparative genomics reveals early emergence and biased spatiotemporal distribution of SARS-CoV-2

M Chiara, DS Horner, C Gissi… - Molecular biology and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
strain typing (MLST), a classification approach often used for microbes (Maiden 2006) to the
geo-spatial analysis of SARS-CoV… more than 175,000 complete SARS-CoV-2 genomes and …

Analysis of 6.4 million SARS-CoV-2 genomes identifies mutations associated with fitness

F Obermeyer, M Jankowiak, N Barkas, SF Schaffner… - Science, 2022 - science.org
… were reliable for 1 to 2 months into the future for variants of concern—but not necessarily
other variants—when they tended to be disrupted by the emergence of a completely new strain (…

Perspectives to fight viruses. The example of SARS-CoV-2

C Demetzos, P Vlamos, D Vlachakis - Proceedings of the European …, 2022 - peasa.eu
SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 could be correlated with the different strength of infection,
between these two strains. … and informed regarding such an ‘information war’. As Klaus Mainzer (…

SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: causes and current situation, historical lessons, and strategical therapeutic interventions

MA Shereen, A Kazmi - Biomedical Research and Therapy, 2020 - bmrat.biomedpress.org
… these vaccines will be effective against all the existing strains of SARS-CoV-2. In a recent
report, the … in animal trials; however, it was effective against only 10 strains of SARS-CoV-235. …

SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in the United States—challenges and opportunities

RP Walensky, HT Walke, AS Fauci - Jama, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
… evaluate tests already approved for SARS-CoV-2 detection under … needs to address not only
SARS-CoV-2 variants from other … health departments on national strain surveillance of 750 …

Understanding how fast SARS-CoV-2 variants transmit from household studies

Y Yang, E Kenah - The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2022 - thelancet.com
… the alpha and delta variants compared with the ancestorial strain, implying shorter generation
times given the presymptomatic transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2. Only a few studies have …

Defusing COVID-19: Lessons learned from a century of pandemics

G Mujica, Z Sternberg, J Solis, T Wand… - Tropical medicine and …, 2020 - mdpi.com
… cold (CoV HKU1, CoV NL63, CoV OC43, and CoV 229E). … Mutations of the novel strain
within the pandemic period can … know from samples that there were strains of the H1N1 virus …

A tale of three recent pandemics: influenza, HIV and SARS-CoV-2

MNS Miranda, M Pingarilho, V Pimentel… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
SARS-CoV-2, scientific insights were produced at an unseen pace. For example, the viral
strain … measures used at the start of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic were similar to those used …

An open debate on SARS-CoV-2's proximal origin is long overdue

R Segreto, Y Deigin, K McCairn, A Sousa… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
… The combination of high human adaptation and poor bat susceptibility from the first
sampled strains of SARS-CoV-2 differs greatly from the evolution of MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV. …

SARS-CoV-2 variants, vaccines, and host immunity

P Mistry, F Barmania, J Mellet, K Peta… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… their fitness in comparison to previously circulating strains. The SARS-CoV-2 S protein is one
… The SARS-CoV-2 S protein structure is discussed in more detail in Section 2 of this article. …