Emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs): an impending global crisis

AYK Thye, JWF Law, P Pusparajah, V Letchumanan… - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
The worldwide battle against the SARS-CoV-2 virus rages on, with millions infected and
many innocent lives lost. The causative organism, severe acute respiratory syndrome …

The emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

A Sanyaolu, C Okorie, A Marinkovic… - Therapeutic …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Since emerging from Wuhan, China, in December of 2019, the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)
has been causing devastating severe respiratory infections in humans worldwide. With the …

SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant replication in human bronchus and lung ex vivo

KPY Hui, JCW Ho, M Cheung, K Ng, RHH Ching, K Lai… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern with progressively increased
transmissibility between humans is a threat to global public health. The Omicron variant of …

Present variants of concern and variants of interest of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2: their significant mutations in S‐glycoprotein, infectivity, re …

C Chakraborty, M Bhattacharya… - Reviews in Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Newly arising variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2)
are now a threat to global public health and are creating COVID‐19 surges in different …

The COVID-19 pandemic: viral variants and vaccine efficacy

M Ciotti, M Ciccozzi, M Pieri… - Critical reviews in clinical …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has
prompted the scientific community and the pharmaceutical companies to put maximum …

Influence of population density for COVID-19 spread in Malaysia: an ecological study

K Ganasegeran, MFA Jamil, ASH Ch'ng, I Looi… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The rapid transmission of highly contagious infectious diseases within communities can
yield potential hotspots or clusters across geographies. For COVID-19, the impact of …

The D614G virus mutation enhances anosmia in COVID-19 patients: evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies from South Asia

CS von Bartheld, MM Hagen… - ACS Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The prevalence of chemosensory dysfunction in patients with COVID-19 varies greatly
between populations. It is unclear whether such differences are due to factors at the level of …

Structural and functional insights into the spike protein mutations of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants

D Gupta, P Sharma, M Singh, M Kumar… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
Since the emergence of the first case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the viral genome has …

Diagnostics and analysis of SARS-CoV-2: current status, recent advances, challenges and perspectives

T Dong, M Wang, J Liu, P Ma, S Pang, W Liu… - Chemical Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The disastrous spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
has induced severe public healthcare issues and weakened the global economy …

Immune response to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines

N Bellamkonda, UP Lambe, S Sawant, SS Nandi… - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
COVID-19 vaccines have been developed to confer immunity against the SARS-CoV-2
infection. Prior to the pandemic of COVID-19 which started in March 2020, there was a well …