Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: a review of viral, host, and environmental factors

EA Meyerowitz, A Richterman, RT Gandhi… - Annals of internal …, 2021 - acpjournals.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the etiologic agent of
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has spread globally in a few short months …

Waves and variants of SARS-CoV-2: understanding the causes and effect of the COVID-19 catastrophe

V Thakur, S Bhola, P Thakur, SKS Patel, S Kulshrestha… - Infection, 2022 - Springer
The coronavirus disease-19 has left a permanent mark on the history of the human race.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutically administered ribonucleoside analogue MK-4482/EIDD-2801 blocks SARS-CoV-2 transmission in ferrets

RM Cox, JD Wolf, RK Plemper - Nature microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is having a catastrophic
impact on human health 1. Widespread community transmission has triggered stringent …

An early warning system for emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants

L Subissi, A von Gottberg, L Thukral, N Worp… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
An early warning system for emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants | Nature Medicine Skip to main
content Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support …

The spike of concern—the novel variants of SARS-CoV-2

A Winger, T Caspari - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
The high sequence identity of the first SARS-CoV-2 samples collected in December 2019 at
Wuhan did not foretell the emergence of novel variants in the United Kingdom, North and …

Potential zoonotic sources of SARS‐CoV‐2 infections

WK Jo, EF de Oliveira‐Filho, A Rasche… - Transboundary and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus‐2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) causing coronavirus
disease‐2019 (COVID‐19) likely has evolutionary origins in other animals than humans …

The SARS-CoV-2 Y453F mink variant displays a pronounced increase in ACE-2 affinity but does not challenge antibody neutralization

R Bayarri-Olmos, A Rosbjerg, LB Johnsen… - Journal of Biological …, 2021 - ASBMB
Transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 from humans to animals
has been reported for many domesticated species, including farmed minks. The …

SARS-CoV-2 infections in animals: reservoirs for reverse zoonosis and models for study

T Prince, SL Smith, AD Radford, T Solomon… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
The recent SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has brought many questions over the origin of the virus,
the threat it poses to animals both in the wild and captivity, and the risks of a permanent viral …

Detection of SARS‐CoV‐2 in respiratory samples from cats in the UK associated with human‐to‐cat transmission

MJ Hosie, I Epifano, V Herder, RJ Orton… - Veterinary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives: The aim of the study was to find evidence of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection in UK cats.
Design: Tissue samples were tested for SARS‐CoV‐2 antigen using immunofluorescence …

[HTML][HTML] Spread of mink SARS-CoV-2 variants in humans: a model of sarbecovirus interspecies evolution

CA Devaux, L Pinault, J Delerce, A Levasseur… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants has quickly spanned doubts and the fear about
their ability escape vaccine protection. Some of these variants initially identified in caged …