Next generation sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 genomes: challenges, applications and opportunities

M Chiara, AM D'Erchia, C Gissi… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Various next generation sequencing (NGS) based strategies have been successfully used in
the recent past for tracing origins and understanding the evolution of infectious agents …

Overview: systemic inflammatory response derived from lung injury caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection explains severe outcomes in COVID-19

RB Polidoro, RS Hagan, R de Santis Santiago… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Most SARS-CoV2 infections will not develop into severe COVID-19. However, in some
patients, lung infection leads to the activation of alveolar macrophages and lung epithelial …

Test sensitivity is secondary to frequency and turnaround time for COVID-19 screening

DB Larremore, B Wilder, E Lester, S Shehata… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a public health crisis. Because SARS-CoV-2 can
spread from individuals with presymptomatic, symptomatic, and asymptomatic infections, the …

Immune complement and coagulation dysfunction in adverse outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection

V Ramlall, PM Thangaraj, C Meydan, J Foox, D Butler… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Understanding the pathophysiology of SARS-CoV-2 infection is critical for therapeutic and
public health strategies. Viral–host interactions can guide discovery of disease regulators …

Rapid and extraction-free detection of SARS-CoV-2 from saliva by colorimetric reverse-transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification

MA Lalli, JS Langmade, X Chen, CC Fronick… - Clinical …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Rapid, reliable, and widespread testing is required to curtail the ongoing
COVID-19 pandemic. Current gold-standard nucleic acid tests are hampered by supply …

[HTML][HTML] In vivo antiviral host transcriptional response to SARS-CoV-2 by viral load, sex, and age

NAP Lieberman, V Peddu, H Xie, L Shrestha… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Despite limited genomic diversity, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) has shown a wide range of clinical manifestations in different patient populations …

[HTML][HTML] Test sensitivity is secondary to frequency and turnaround time for COVID-19 surveillance

DB Larremore, B Wilder, E Lester, S Shehata, JM Burke… - MedRxiv, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a public health crisis. Because SARS-CoV-2 can
spread from individuals with pre-symptomatic, symptomatic, and asymptomatic infections …

Transcriptional and proteomic insights into the host response in fatal COVID-19 cases

M Wu, Y Chen, H Xia, C Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the global pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, has
resulted thus far in greater than 933,000 deaths worldwide; yet disease pathogenesis …

A molecular test based on RT-LAMP for rapid, sensitive and inexpensive colorimetric detection of SARS-CoV-2 in clinical samples

C Amaral, W Antunes, E Moe, AG Duarte, LMP Lima… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Until there is an effective implementation of COVID-19 vaccination program, a robust testing
strategy, along with prevention measures, will continue to be the most viable way to control …

Structural basis of RNA cap modification by SARS-CoV-2

T Viswanathan, S Arya, SH Chan, S Qi, N Dai… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of
COVID-19 illness, has caused millions of infections worldwide. In SARS coronaviruses, the …