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 …

COVID-19 vaccine development: milestones, lessons and prospects

M Li, H Wang, L Tian, Z Pang, Q Yang… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
With the constantly mutating of SARS-CoV-2 and the emergence of Variants of Concern
(VOC), the implementation of vaccination is critically important. Existing SARS-CoV-2 …

Comparing COVID-19 vaccines for their characteristics, efficacy and effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 and variants of concern: a narrative review

T Fiolet, Y Kherabi, CJ MacDonald, J Ghosn… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Vaccines are critical cost-effective tools to control the coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) pandemic. However, the emergence of variants of the severe acute respiratory …

[HTML][HTML] Reduced neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 B. 1.617 by vaccine and convalescent serum

C Liu, HM Ginn, W Dejnirattisai, P Supasa, B Wang… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has undergone
progressive change, with variants conferring advantage rapidly becoming dominant …

Rapid epidemic expansion of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in southern Africa

R Viana, S Moyo, DG Amoako, H Tegally, C Scheepers… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in southern Africa has been characterized by three distinct
waves. The first was associated with a mix of SARS-CoV-2 lineages, while the second and …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of SARS-CoV-2 variants on the total CD4+ and CD8+ T cell reactivity in infected or vaccinated individuals

A Tarke, J Sidney, N Methot, ED Yu, Y Zhang… - Cell Reports …, 2021 - cell.com
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants with evidence of antibody escape highlight the
importance of addressing whether the total CD4+ and CD8+ T cell recognition is also …

Detection of a SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern in South Africa

H Tegally, E Wilkinson, M Giovanetti, A Iranzadeh… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Continued uncontrolled transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in many parts of the world is creating
conditions for substantial evolutionary changes to the virus,. Here we describe a newly …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants escape neutralization by vaccine-induced humoral immunity

WF Garcia-Beltran, EC Lam, KS Denis, AD Nitido… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Vaccination elicits immune responses capable of potently neutralizing SARS-CoV-2.
However, ongoing surveillance has revealed the emergence of variants harboring mutations …

Evidence of escape of SARS-CoV-2 variant B. 1.351 from natural and vaccine-induced sera

D Zhou, W Dejnirattisai, P Supasa, C Liu, AJ Mentzer… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
The race to produce vaccines against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) began when the first sequence was published, and this forms the basis for …

SARS-CoV-2 501Y. V2 escapes neutralization by South African COVID-19 donor plasma

CK Wibmer, F Ayres, T Hermanus, M Madzivhandila… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract SARS-CoV-2 501Y. V2 (B. 1.351), a novel lineage of coronavirus causing COVID-
19, contains substitutions in two immunodominant domains of the spike protein. Here, we …