Modeling zoonotic and vector-borne viruses

SD Judson, DW Dowdy - Current Opinion in Virology, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights●Goals for models include understanding, decision-making, and
predicting/forecasting.●Data for models vary in multiple dimensions, including spatial …

[HTML][HTML] The Ways of the Virus: Interactions of Platelets and Red Blood Cells with SARS-CoV-2, and Their Potential Pathophysiological Significance in COVID-19

MA Panteleev, AN Sveshnikova… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The hematological effects of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-
2) are important in COVID-19 pathophysiology. However, the interactions of SARS-CoV-2 …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogenomic early warning signals for SARS-CoV-2 epidemic waves

KO Drake, O Boyd, VB Franceschi, RM Colquhoun… - …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background Epidemic waves of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infections have often
been associated with the emergence of novel severe acute respiratory syndrome …

Estimation of SARS-CoV-2 fitness gains from genomic surveillance data without prior lineage classification

T Donker, A Papathanassopoulos… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants with increased fitness has had a strong impact on
the epidemiology of COVID-19, with the higher effective reproduction number of the viral …

Drivers of epidemic dynamics in real time from daily digital COVID-19 measurements

M Kendall, L Ferretti, C Wymant, D Tsallis, J Petrie… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Understanding the drivers of respiratory pathogen spread is challenging, particularly in a
timely manner during an ongoing epidemic. Here we present insights obtained using daily …

Immune targets to stop future SARS-CoV-2 variants

M Silva Souza, J Pires Farias, W Barros Luiz… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
The SARS-COV-2 variants of concern (VOCs) accumulated mutations that confer to the viral
particle a higher infectivity as well as a capacity to escape neutralizing antibodies (NAbs) …

[HTML][HTML] Combining genomic data and infection estimates to characterize the complex dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants in the US

R Lopes, K Pham, F Klaassen, MH Chitwood, AM Hahn… - Cell Reports, 2024 - cell.com
Omicron surged as a variant of concern in late 2021. Several distinct Omicron variants
appeared and overtook each other. We combined variant frequencies and infection …

[HTML][HTML] A multiscale modeling framework for Scenario Modeling: Characterizing the heterogeneity of the COVID-19 epidemic in the US

M Chinazzi, JT Davis, AP y Piontti, K Mu, N Gozzi… - Epidemics, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Scenario Modeling Hub (SMH) initiative provides projections of potential
epidemic scenarios in the United States (US) by using a multi-model approach. Our …

Reconstructing relative transmission rates in Bayesian phylodynamics: Two-fold transmission advantage of Omicron in Berlin, Germany during December 2021

A Weber, S Översti, D Kühnert - Virus Evolution, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Phylodynamic methods have lately played a key role in understanding the spread of
infectious diseases. During the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, large scale …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative Inactivation of the RNA of the Delta and Omicron Variants of SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater of Five Municipalities in Southeast Germany

M Geissler, R Dumke - Water, 2024 - mdpi.com
During the COVID-19 pandemic, wastewater-based epidemiology has been extensively
used as a helpful tool for evaluation of the epidemic situation in catchments of wastewater …