Genetic Variants of SARS-CoV-2—What Do They Mean?

Tracking Changes in SARS-CoV-2 Spike: Evidence that D614G Increases Infectivity of the COVID-19 Virus

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Estimated transmissibility and impact of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 in England

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Estimated transmissibility and impact of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 in England

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Spike mutation D614G alters SARS-CoV-2 fitness

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Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 on mink farms between humans and mink and back to humans

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Evaluating the Effects of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Mutation D614G on Transmissibility and Pathogenicity

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SARS-CoV-2 D614G variant exhibits efficient replication ex vivo and transmission in vivo

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D614G Spike Mutation Increases SARS CoV-2 Susceptibility to Neutralization

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Evaluating the Effects of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Mutation D614G on Transmissibility and PathogenicityPreprint

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We shouldn’t worry when a virus mutates during disease outbreaks

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mRNA vaccine-elicited antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 and circulating variants

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Clinical severity of, and effectiveness of mRNA vaccines against, covid-19 from omicron, delta, and alpha SARS-CoV-2 variants in the United States: prospective observational study

Lauring, A. S., Tenforde, M. W., Chappell, J. D., Gaglani, M., Ginde, A. A., McNeal, T., Ghamande, S., Douin, D. J., Talbot, H. K., Casey, J. D., et al. (2022) · BMJ · doi:10.1136/bmj-2021-069761 · Cited by 656

Circular RNA Vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 and Emerging Variants

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Spread of a SARS-CoV-2 variant through Europe in the summer of 2020

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Genomic characteristics and clinical effect of the emergent SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 lineage in London, UK: a whole-genome sequencing and hospital-based cohort study

Frampton, D., Rampling, T., Cross, A., Bailey, H., Heaney, J., Byott, M., Scott, R., Sconza, R., Price, J., Margaritis, M., et al. (2021) · The Lancet Infectious Diseases · doi:10.1016/s1473-3099(21)00170-5 · Cited by 397

Emergence of a Novel SARS-CoV-2 Variant in Southern California

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Global disparities in SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance

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Lessons learned 1 year after SARS-CoV-2 emergence leading to COVID-19 pandemic

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SARS-CoV-2 Variants, Vaccines, and Host Immunity

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Role of Inflammatory Cytokines in COVID-19 Patients: A Review on Molecular Mechanisms, Immune Functions, Immunopathology and Immunomodulatory Drugs to Counter Cytokine Storm

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Multiplex qPCR discriminates variants of concern to enhance global surveillance of SARS-CoV-2

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Bacterial Coinfections in Coronavirus Disease 2019

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Acquisition of the L452R Mutation in the ACE2-Binding Interface of Spike Protein Triggers Recent Massive Expansion of SARS-CoV-2 Variants

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Functional evaluation of the P681H mutation on the proteolytic activation of the SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7 (Alpha) spike

Lubinski, B., Fernandes, M. H. V., Frazier, L. E., Tang, T., Daniel, S., Diel, D. G., Jaimes, J. A., & Whittaker, G. R. (2021) · iScience · doi:10.1016/j.isci.2021.103589 · Cited by 209

Discovery of SARS-CoV-2 Papain-like Protease Inhibitors through a Combination of High-Throughput Screening and a FlipGFP-Based Reporter Assay

Ma, C., Sacco, M. D., Xia, Z., Lambrinidis, G., Townsend, J. A., Hu, Y., Meng, X., Szeto, T., Ba, M., Zhang, X., et al. (2021) · ACS Central Science · doi:10.1021/acscentsci.1c00519 · Cited by 201

Comparative transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 variants Delta and Alpha in New England, USA

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Review of COVID-19 Variants and COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy: What the Clinician Should Know?

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Modeling vaccination rollouts, SARS-CoV-2 variants and the requirement for non-pharmaceutical interventions in Italy

Giordano, G., Colaneri, M., Di Filippo, A., Blanchini, F., Bolzern, P., De Nicolao, G., Sacchi, P., Colaneri, P., & Bruno, R. (2021) · Nature Medicine · doi:10.1038/s41591-021-01334-5 · Cited by 192

Cryo-electron microscopy structures of the N501Y SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in complex with ACE2 and 2 potent neutralizing antibodies

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SARS-CoV-2 in animals: potential for unknown reservoir hosts and public health implications

Sharun, K., Dhama, K., PAWDE, A. M., Gortázar, C., Tiwari, R., Bonilla‐Aldana, D. K., Rodriguez-Morales, A. J., de la Fuente, J., Michalak, I., & Attia, Y. A. (2021) · Veterinary Quarterly · doi:10.1080/01652176.2021.1921311 · Cited by 169

Pregnancy and viral infections: Mechanisms of fetal damage, diagnosis and prevention of neonatal adverse outcomes from cytomegalovirus to SARS-CoV-2 and Zika virus

Auriti, C., Rose, D. U. D., Santisi, A., Martini, L., Piersigilli, F., Bersani, I., Ronchetti, M. P., & Caforio, L. (2021) · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease · doi:10.1016/j.bbadis.2021.166198 · Cited by 162

A Detailed Overview of Immune Escape, Antibody Escape, Partial Vaccine Escape of SARS-CoV-2 and Their Emerging Variants With Escape Mutations

Chakraborty, C., Sharma, A. R., Bhattacharya, M., & Lee, S. (2022) · Frontiers in Immunology · doi:10.3389/fimmu.2022.801522 · Cited by 154

Public health actions to control new SARS-CoV-2 variants

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Evolutionary trajectory of SARS-CoV-2 and emerging variants

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Variant-specific symptoms of COVID-19 in a study of 1,542,510 adults in England

Whitaker, M. D., Elliott, J., Bodinier, B., Barclay, W., Ward, H., Cooke, G., Donnelly, C. A., Chadeau‐Hyam, M., & Elliott, P. (2022) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34244-2 · Cited by 143

Two Years into the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned

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Immune response to SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in vaccinated individuals

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SARS‐CoV‐2 variants and vulnerability at the global level

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Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) in COVID-19: A Tool for SARS-CoV-2 Diagnosis, Monitoring New Strains and Phylodynamic Modeling in Molecular Epidemiology

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Early introductions and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7 in the United States

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The emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

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Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern (VOCs): An Impending Global Crisis

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Immunoglobulin Y for Potential Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications in Infectious Diseases

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Emergence in late 2020 of multiple lineages of SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein variants affecting amino acid position 677Preprint

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COVID-19 in the 47 countries of the WHO African region: a modelling analysis of past trends and future patterns

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SARS-CoV-2 vaccines: a triumph of science and collaboration

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The Emerging Concern and Interest SARS-CoV-2 Variants

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Evaluation and Comparison of Serological Methods for COVID-19 Diagnosis

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Signatures in SARS-CoV-2 spike protein conferring escape to neutralizing antibodies

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SARS-CoV-2 shedding and evolution in patients who were immunocompromised during the omicron period: a multicentre, prospective analysis

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Persistence of neutralizing antibodies a year after SARS‐CoV‐2 infection in humans

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Diverse Immunological Factors Influencing Pathogenesis in Patients with COVID-19: A Review on Viral Dissemination, Immunotherapeutic Options to Counter Cytokine Storm and Inflammatory Responses

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A Global Picture: Therapeutic Perspectives for COVID-19

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Evolution, Mode of Transmission, and Mutational Landscape of Newly Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Variants

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Editorial: The XBB.1.5 (‘Kraken’) Subvariant of Omicron SARS-CoV-2 and its Rapid Global Spread

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Perinatal SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Neonatal COVID-19: A 2021 Update

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Rapid emergence of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant is associated with an infection advantage over Delta in vaccinated persons

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Dynamics of a stochastic delay differential model for COVID-19 infection with asymptomatic infected and interacting people: Case study in the UAE

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Increased small particle aerosol transmission of B.1.1.7 compared with SARS-CoV-2 lineage A in vivo

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Towards accurate and reliable resolution of structural variants for clinical diagnosis

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SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance identifies naturally occurring truncation of ORF7a that limits immune suppression

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Maximum likelihood pandemic-scale phylogenetics

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SARS-CoV-2: is there neuroinvasion?

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Microbicidal actives with virucidal efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 and other beta- and alpha-coronaviruses and implications for future emerging coronaviruses and other enveloped viruses

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Mutation Signatures and In Silico Docking of Novel SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern

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New variants of SARS-CoV-2

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Possible Use of Phytochemicals for Recovery from COVID-19-Induced Anosmia and Ageusia

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Fast-track development of vaccines for SARS-CoV-2: The shots that saved the world

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A Simple Reverse Transcriptase PCR Melting-Temperature Assay To Rapidly Screen for Widely Circulating SARS-CoV-2 Variants

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Development and application of therapeutic antibodies against COVID-19

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Five consecutive epidemiological waves of COVID-19: a population-based cross-sectional study on characteristics, policies, and health outcome

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A Narrative Review of COVID-19 Vaccines

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Modeling COVID-19 dynamic using a two-strain model with vaccination

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ViralFlow: A Versatile Automated Workflow for SARS-CoV-2 Genome Assembly, Lineage Assignment, Mutations and Intrahost Variant Detection

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Early epidemiological signatures of novel SARS-CoV-2 variants: establishment of B.1.617.2 in EnglandPreprint

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SARS-CoV-2 variants reveal features critical for replication in primary human cells

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