SARS-CoV-2 variants identification: overview of molecular existing methods

G Berno, L Fabeni, G Matusali, CEM Gruber, M Rueca… - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
Since the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic the Real Time sharing of genome sequences of
circulating virus supported the diagnostics and surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 and its …

Emerging landscape of SARS-CoV-2 variants and detection technologies

X Li, J Wang, J Geng, L Xiao, H Wang - Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy, 2023 - Springer
In 2019, a new coronavirus was identified that has caused significant morbidity and mortality
worldwide. Like all RNA viruses, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS …

Summary of the available molecular methods for detection of SARS-CoV-2 during the ongoing pandemic

F Arena, S Pollini, GM Rossolini… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Since early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused an excess in morbidity and mortality
rates worldwide. Containment strategies rely firstly on rapid and sensitive laboratory …

Rapid screening of SARS-CoV-2 variants, a key tool for pandemic surveillance

I Muñoz-Gallego, MÁ Meléndez Carmona… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The utility of reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in analysis SARS-
COV-2 variants was evaluated. RT-PCR tests were used to analyse the majority of new …

A tool for the cheap and rapid screening of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VoCs) by Sanger sequencing

G Burgos, A Ambuludí… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is an emerging virus that,
since March 2020, has been responsible for a global and ongoing pandemic. Its rapid …

A Sanger-based approach for scaling up screening of SARS-CoV-2 variants of interest and concern

MF Bezerra, LC Machado, VCV De Carvalho… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The global spread of new SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern underscore an urgent need of
simple deployed molecular tools that can differentiate these lineages. Several tools and …

Geographic and genomic distribution of SARS-CoV-2 mutations

D Mercatelli, FM Giorgi - Frontiers in microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The novel respiratory disease COVID-19 has reached the status of worldwide pandemic and
large efforts are currently being undertaken in molecularly characterizing the virus causing it …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of the potential impact of genomic variants in global SARS-CoV-2 genomes on molecular diagnostic assays

A Jain, M Rophina, S Mahajan, BB Krishnan… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
An epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causing
coronavirus diseases (C0VID-19) initially reported in Wuhan, China has rapidly emerged …

Genome-wide analysis of SARS-CoV-2 virus strains circulating worldwide implicates heterogeneity

MR Islam, MN Hoque, MS Rahman, ASMRU Alam… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), a novel evolutionary
divergent RNA virus, is responsible for the present devastating COVID-19 pandemic. To …

Emergence of novel SARS-CoV-2 variants in the Netherlands

A Urhan, T Abeel - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has emerged in December 2019 when the
first case was reported in Wuhan, China and turned into a pandemic with 27 million …