Omicron variant of SARS‐CoV‐2: genomics, transmissibility, and responses to current COVID‐19 vaccines

Y Araf, F Akter, Y Tang, R Fatemi… - Journal of medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Currently, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) has spread
worldwide as an Omicron variant. This variant is a heavily mutated virus and designated as …

The biological and clinical significance of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants

K Tao, PL Tzou, J Nouhin, RK Gupta… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The past several months have witnessed the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants with novel
spike protein mutations that are influencing the epidemiological and clinical aspects of the …

Bivalent SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines increase breadth of neutralization and protect against the BA. 5 Omicron variant in mice

SM Scheaffer, D Lee, B Whitener, B Ying, K Wu… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants
in the Omicron lineage has resulted in diminished Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

Efficacy and safety of NVX-CoV2373 in adults in the United States and Mexico

LM Dunkle, KL Kotloff, CL Gay, G Áñez… - … England Journal of …, 2022 - Mass Medical Soc
Background NVX-CoV2373 is an adjuvanted, recombinant spike protein nanoparticle
vaccine that was shown to have clinical efficacy for the prevention of coronavirus disease …

Human genetic and immunological determinants of critical COVID-19 pneumonia

Q Zhang, P Bastard, A Cobat, JL Casanova - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 infection is benign in most individuals but, in around 10% of cases, it triggers
hypoxaemic COVID-19 pneumonia, which leads to critical illness in around 3% of cases …

[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 …

Respiratory mucosal delivery of next-generation COVID-19 vaccine provides robust protection against both ancestral and variant strains of SARS-CoV-2

S Afkhami, MR D'Agostino, A Zhang, HD Stacey… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs) threaten the effectiveness of current
COVID-19 vaccines administered intramuscularly and designed to only target the spike …

SARS-CoV-2 variants, vaccines, and host immunity

P Mistry, F Barmania, J Mellet, K Peta… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a new beta coronavirus
that emerged at the end of 2019 in the Hubei province of China. SARS-CoV-2 causes …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 reinfections: Overview of efficacy and duration of natural and hybrid immunity

S Pilz, V Theiler-Schwetz, C Trummer, R Krause… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Seroprevalence surveys suggest that more than a third and possibly more than half of the
global population has been infected with SARS-CoV-2 by early 2022. As large numbers of …

[HTML][HTML] Considerations in boosting COVID-19 vaccine immune responses

PR Krause, TR Fleming, R Peto, IM Longini… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
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