Mucosal vaccines, sterilizing immunity, and the future of SARS-CoV-2 virulence

D Focosi, F Maggi, A Casadevall - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Sterilizing immunity after vaccination is desirable to prevent the spread of infection from
vaccinees, which can be especially dangerous in hospital settings while managing frail …

The emergence and evolution of SARS-CoV-2

EC Holmes - Annual review of virology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The origin of SARS-CoV-2 has evoked heated debate and strong accusations, yet
seemingly little resolution. I review the scientific evidence on the origin of SARS-CoV-2 and …

Evidence for SARS-CoV-2 Delta and Omicron co-infections and recombination

A Bolze, T Basler, S White, A Dei Rossi, D Wyman… - Med, 2022 - cell.com
Summary Background Between November 2021 and February 2022, severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Delta and Omicron variants co-circulated …

The coronavirus recombination pathway

HL Wells, CM Bonavita, I Navarrete-Macias, B Vilchez… - Cell host & …, 2023 - cell.com
Recombination is thought to be a mechanism that facilitates cross-species transmission in
coronaviruses, thus acting as a driver of coronavirus spillover and emergence. Despite its …

In-depth study of tomato and weed viromes reveals undiscovered plant virus diversity in an agroecosystem

MPS Rivarez, A Pecman, K Bačnik, O Maksimović… - Microbiome, 2023 - Springer
Background In agroecosystems, viruses are well known to influence crop health and some
cause phytosanitary and economic problems, but their diversity in non-crop plants and role …

Emergence and widespread circulation of a recombinant SARS-CoV-2 lineage in North America

B Gutierrez, HGC Sánchez, D da Silva Candido… - Cell Host & Microbe, 2022 - cell.com
Although recombination is a feature of coronavirus evolution, previously detected
recombinant lineages of SARS-CoV-2 have shown limited circulation thus far. Here, we …

Cross-species transmission, evolution and zoonotic potential of coronaviruses

Q Li, T Shah, B Wang, L Qu, R Wang, Y Hou… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Coronaviruses (CoVs) continuously evolve, crossing species barriers and spreading across
host ranges. Over the last two decades, several CoVs (HCoV-229E, HCoV-NL63, HCoV …

[HTML][HTML] The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2

JE Pekar, S Lytras, M Ghafari, AF Magee, E Parker… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The emergence of SARS-CoV in 2002 and SARS-CoV-2 in 2019 has led to increased
sampling of related sarbecoviruses circulating primarily in horseshoe bats. These viruses …

Molecular characterization of complete genome sequence of an avian coronavirus identified in a backyard chicken from Tanzania

HM Kariithi, JD Volkening, GH Chiwanga, IV Goraichuk… - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
A complete genome sequence of an avian coronavirus (AvCoV; 27,663 bp excluding 3′
poly (A) tail) was determined using nontargeted next-generation sequencing (NGS) of an …

Diversity and pathobiology of an ilarvirus unexpectedly detected in diverse plants and global sequencing data

MPS Rivarez, C Faure, L Svanella-Dumas… - …, 2023 - Am Phytopath Society
High-throughput sequencing (HTS) and sequence mining tools revolutionized virus
detection and discovery in recent years, and implementing them with classical plant virology …