SARS-CoV-2 evolution in the Omicron era

C Roemer, DJ Sheward, R Hisner, F Gueli… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Since SARS-CoV-2 BA. 5 (Omicron) emerged and spread in 2022, Omicron
lineages have markedly diversified. Here we review the evolutionary trajectories and …

[HTML][HTML] Global emerging Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2: Impacts, challenges and strategies

K Dhama, F Nainu, A Frediansyah, MI Yatoo… - Journal of infection and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Newly emerging variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
are continuously posing high global public health concerns and panic resulting in waves of …

Outbreak. info genomic reports: scalable and dynamic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 variants and mutations

K Gangavarapu, AA Latif, JL Mullen, M Alkuzweny… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In response to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern, the global scientific
community, through unprecedented effort, has sequenced and shared over 11 million …

Multiplexed CRISPR-based microfluidic platform for clinical testing of respiratory viruses and identification of SARS-CoV-2 variants

NL Welch, M Zhu, C Hua, J Weller, ME Mirhashemi… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has demonstrated a clear
need for high-throughput, multiplexed and sensitive assays for detecting severe acute …

Wastewater sequencing reveals early cryptic SARS-CoV-2 variant transmission

S Karthikeyan, JI Levy, P De Hoff, G Humphrey… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
As SARS-CoV-2 continues to spread and evolve, detecting emerging variants early is critical
for public health interventions. Inferring lineage prevalence by clinical testing is infeasible at …

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 …

Simplified Cas13-based assays for the fast identification of SARS-CoV-2 and its variants

J Arizti-Sanz, AD Bradley, YB Zhang… - Nature biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
The widespread transmission and evolution of severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) call for rapid nucleic acid diagnostics that are easy to use …

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] Toward a global virus genomic surveillance network

V Hill, G Githinji, CBF Vogels, AI Bento, C Chaguza… - Cell Host & Microbe, 2023 - cell.com
The COVID-19 pandemic galvanized the field of virus genomic surveillance, demonstrating
its utility for public health. Now, we must harness the momentum that led to increased …

Spatial and temporal fluctuations in COVID-19 fatality rates in Brazilian hospitals

A Brizzi, C Whittaker, LMS Servo, I Hawryluk… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Gamma variant of
concern has spread rapidly across Brazil since late 2020, causing substantial infection and …