Phylogenetic and phylodynamic approaches to understanding and combating the early SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

SW Attwood, SC Hill, DM Aanensen… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Determining the transmissibility, prevalence and patterns of movement of severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections is central to our understanding …

COVID-19: unmasking emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants, vaccines and therapeutic strategies

R Raman, KJ Patel, K Ranjan - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the etiological agent of
the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which has been a topic of major …

Effectiveness of the CoronaVac vaccine in older adults during a gamma variant associated epidemic of covid-19 in Brazil: test negative case-control study

OT Ranzani, MDT Hitchings, M Dorion, TL D'Agostini… - bmj, 2021 - bmj.com
Objective To estimate the effectiveness of the inactivated whole virus vaccine, CoronaVac
(Sinovac Biotech), against symptomatic covid-19 in the elderly population of São Paulo …

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned

SJR da Silva, JCF do Nascimento… - ACS infectious …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a highly transmissible
and virulent human-infecting coronavirus that emerged in late December 2019 in Wuhan …

Genomic epidemiology of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Brazil

M Giovanetti, SN Slavov, V Fonseca, E Wilkinson… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The high numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths in Brazil have made Latin America an
epicentre of the pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 established sustained transmission in Brazil early …

The origins and molecular evolution of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B. 1.1. 7 in the UK

V Hill, L Du Plessis, TP Peacock, D Aggarwal… - Virus …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The first SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern (VOC) to be designated was lineage B. 1.1. 7, later
labelled by the World Health Organization as Alpha. Originating in early autumn but …

Molecular characteristics, immune evasion, and impact of SARS-CoV-2 variants

C Sun, C Xie, GL Bu, LY Zhong, MS Zeng - Signal Transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The persistent COVID-19 pandemic since 2020 has brought an enormous public health
burden to the global society and is accompanied by various evolution of the virus genome …

Effectiveness of CoronaVac among healthcare workers in the setting of high SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant transmission in Manaus, Brazil: A test-negative case-control …

MDT Hitchings, OT Ranzani, MSS Torres… - The Lancet Regional …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variant,
Gamma, emerged in the city of Manaus in late 2020 during a large resurgence of …

[HTML][HTML] Collapse of the public health system and the emergence of new variants during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil

SJR da Silva, L Pena - One Health, 2021 - Elsevier
The worldwide spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-
2) has caused the most severe public health crisis since the 1918 Spanish influenza …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

JY Choi, DM Smith - Yonsei medical journal, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Since the COVID-19 pandemic first began in December 2019, the severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus has continuously evolved with many variants …