Viruses are submicroscopic, obligate intracellular parasites that carry either DNA or RNA as
their genome, protected by a capsid. Viruses are genetic entities that propagate by using the …

The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in Wuhan, China, was
triggered and unfolded quickly throughout the globe by severe acute respiratory syndrome …

Mutations in the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) occur
spontaneously during replication. Thousands of mutations have accumulated and continue …

The sudden rise in COVID-19 cases in 2020 and the incessant emergence of fast-spreading
variants have created an alarming situation worldwide. Besides the continuous …

COVID-19 is a worldwide pandemic caused by SARS-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Less
than a year after the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, many vaccines have arrived on …

The third pandemic of coronavirus infection, called COVID-19 disease, began recently in
China. The newly discovered coronavirus, entitled SARS-CoV-2, is the seventh member of …

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, enormous efforts have been made to understand
the genus SARS-CoV-2. Due to the high rate of global transmission, mutations in the viral …

Numerous variants of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2)
pandemic have evolved. Viral variants may evolve with harmful susceptibility to the immunity …

SARS-CoV-2 expresses on its surface the Spike protein responsible for binding with the
ACE2 receptor and which carries the majority of immunodominant epitopes. Mutations …

The ability of SARS-CoV-2 to rapidly mutate represents a remarkable complicancy.
Quantitative evaluations of the effects that these mutations have on the virus …