[HTML][HTML] Phylogenetic and phylodynamic approaches to understanding and combating the early SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

SW Attwood, SC Hill, DM Aanensen… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Determining the transmissibility, prevalence and patterns of movement of severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections is central to our understanding …

[HTML][HTML] Review of current COVID-19 diagnostics and opportunities for further development

Y Mardian, H Kosasih, M Karyana, A Neal… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Diagnostic testing plays a critical role in addressing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-
19) pandemic, caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic surveillance to combat COVID-19: challenges and opportunities

JD Robishaw, SM Alter, JJ Solano, RD Shih… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Although the development and increasingly widespread availability of effective and safe
vaccines provides the greatest hope for the future recovery from the increasingly devastating …

[HTML][HTML] Viral variant-resolved wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 at national scale

F Amman, R Markt, L Endler, S Hupfauf, B Agerer… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 surveillance by wastewater-based epidemiology is poised to provide a
complementary approach to sequencing individual cases. However, robust quantification of …

[HTML][HTML] Detection of SARS-CoV-2 variants by genomic analysis of wastewater samples in Israel

I Bar-Or, M Weil, V Indenbaum, E Bucris… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Investigation of SARS-CoV-2 spread and identification of variants in sewers has been
demonstrated to accurately detect prevalence of viral strains and is advantageous to clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Revised World Health Organization (WHO) terminology for variants of concern and variants of interest of SARS-CoV-2

DV Parums - … science monitor: international medical journal of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has identified thousands of
genome sequences of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). On …

Spike2vec: An efficient and scalable embedding approach for covid-19 spike sequences

S Ali, M Patterson - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid global spread of COVID-19, more and more data related to this virus is
becoming available, including genomic sequence data. The total number of genomic …

[HTML][HTML] Spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 variants: a brief review and practical implications

KL Candido, CR Eich, LO de Fariña… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
The scientific community has been alarmed by the possible immunological evasion, higher
infectivity, and severity of disease caused by the newest variants of SARS-CoV-2. The spike …

Genomic epidemiology of the first two waves of SARS-CoV-2 in Canada

A McLaughlin, V Montoya, RL Miller, GJ Mordecai… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Tracking the emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 lineages using phylogenetics has
proven critical to inform the timing and stringency of COVID-19 public health interventions …

[HTML][HTML] The association of airborne particulate matter and benzo [a] pyrene with the clinical course of COVID-19 in patients hospitalized in Poland

P Rzymski, B Poniedziałek, J Rosińska… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Air pollution can adversely affect the immune response and increase the severity of the viral
disease. The present study aimed to explore the relationship between symptomatology …