Fitness, growth and transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 genetic variants

E Volz - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
The massive scale of the global SARS-CoV-2 sequencing effort created new opportunities
and challenges for understanding SARS-CoV-2 evolution. Rapid detection and assessment …

Effectiveness of international border control measures during the COVID-19 pandemic: a narrative synthesis of published systematic reviews

KA Grépin, J Aston, J Burns - … Transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The effectiveness of international border control measures during the COVID-19 pandemic
is not well understood. Using a narrative synthesis approach to published systematic …

Genomic assessment of invasion dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA. 1

JLH Tsui, JT McCrone, B Lambert, S Bajaj, RPD Inward… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants of concern (VOCs)
now arise in the context of heterogeneous human connectivity and population immunity …

[HTML][HTML] A comparative study of eight COVID-19 protective measures and their impact on swiss tourists' travel intentions

AP Hüsser, T Ohnmacht - Tourism Management, 2023 - Elsevier
A comparative vignette-based experimental survey design incorporating various socio-
psychological factors, linked to the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), the Health Belief …

Replacement of the Alpha variant of SARS-CoV-2 by the Delta variant in Lebanon between April and June 2021

G Merhi, AJ Trotter, L de Oliveira Martins… - Microbial …, 2022 - microbiologyresearch.org
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to expand globally, with case numbers rising in many
areas of the world, including the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Lebanon experienced its …

Genomic surveillance identifies SARS-CoV-2 transmission patterns in local university populations, Wisconsin, USA, 2020–2022

A Ramaiah, M Khubbar, A Bauer, S Scott… - Microbial …, 2023 - microbiologyresearch.org
Novel variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) continue
to emerge as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic extends into its fourth …

Population-Based Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Whole-Genome Sequencing and Contact Tracing During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 …

N Anderegg, T Schwab, L Borcard… - The Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Testing and contact tracing (CT) can interrupt transmission chains of SARS-
CoV-2. Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) can potentially strengthen these investigations …

Implementation and evaluation of the clear dx platform for sequencing SARS-CoV-2 genomes in a public health laboratory

A Ramaiah, M Khubbar, S Scott, A Bauer… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is an etiological agent of
the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which has infected over 750 …

[HTML][HTML] Scalable neighbour search and alignment with uvaia

L de Oliveira Martins, AE Mather, AJ Page - PeerJ, 2024 - peerj.com
Despite millions of SARS-CoV-2 genomes being sequenced and shared globally,
manipulating such data sets is still challenging, especially selecting sequences for focused …

The Effectiveness of Quarantine in Viral and Bacterial Epidemics: New Evidence Provided by the Covid-19 Pandemic

A Martínez-Hernández, V Martínez - International Work-Conference on …, 2023 - Springer
The effectiveness of confining the population has been observed for centuries. However, this
effectiveness has now been demonstrated with data during the COVID-19 pandemic, for …