[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant: recent progress and future perspectives

Y Fan, X Li, L Zhang, S Wan, L Zhang… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, there have been
a few variants of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), one of …

A detailed overview of SARS-CoV-2 omicron: its sub-variants, mutations and pathophysiology, clinical characteristics, immunological landscape, immune escape, and …

S Chatterjee, M Bhattacharya, S Nag, K Dhama… - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has created significant concern for everyone. Recent data from
many worldwide reports suggest that most infections are caused by the Omicron variant and …

Infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections and reinfections during the Omicron wave

ST Tan, AT Kwan, I Rodríguez-Barraquer, BJ Singer… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) breakthrough infections in
vaccinated individuals and reinfections in previously infected individuals have become …

Increased memory B cell potency and breadth after a SARS-CoV-2 mRNA boost

F Muecksch, Z Wang, A Cho, C Gaebler, T Ben Tanfous… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 infected many vaccinated and convalescent
individuals,–. Despite the reduced protection from infection, individuals who received three …

COVID-19 2022 update: transition of the pandemic to the endemic phase

M Biancolella, VL Colona, R Mehrian-Shai, JL Watt… - Human genomics, 2022 - Springer
COVID-19, which is caused by the SARS-CoV-2, has ravaged the world for the past 2 years.
Here, we review the current state of research into the disease with focus on its history …

SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA. 1 and BA. 2 are attenuated in rhesus macaques as compared to Delta

N van Doremalen, M Singh, TA Saturday, CK Yinda… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Since the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, five different variants of concern (VOCs) have been
identified: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Omicron. Because of confounding factors in the …

Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 variants: implications on immune escape, vaccination, therapeutic and diagnostic strategies

NZ Zabidi, HL Liew, IA Farouk, A Puniyamurti, AJW Yip… - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 is associated with a lower fatality rate
than its SARS and MERS counterparts. However, the rapid evolution of SARS-CoV-2 has …

Projecting the SARS-CoV-2 transition from pandemicity to endemicity: Epidemiological and immunological considerations

LE Cohen, DJ Spiro, C Viboud - PLoS Pathogens, 2022 - journals.plos.org
In this review, we discuss the epidemiological dynamics of different viral infections to project
how the transition from a pandemic to endemic Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome …

SARS-CoV-2 before and after Omicron: two different viruses and two different diseases?

R Gili, R Burioni - Journal of translational medicine, 2023 - Springer
For the first time in the history of medicine, it has been possible to describe—after a spillover—
the evolution of a new human virus spreading in a non-immune population. This allowed not …

Covid-19: is omicron less lethal than delta?

R Lorenzo-Redondo, EA Ozer, JF Hultquist - Bmj, 2022 - bmj.com
Soon after the omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern was first reported to the World
Health Organization on 24 November 2021, preliminary observational studies in South …