The origins of COVID‐19 pandemic: A brief overview

YJ Hao, YL Wang, MY Wang, L Zhou… - Transboundary and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The novel coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) outbreak that emerged at the end of 2019 has
now swept the world for more than 2 years, causing immeasurable damage to the lives and …

Comparison of control and transmission of COVID-19 across epidemic waves in Hong Kong: an observational study

B Yang, Y Lin, W Xiong, C Liu, H Gao, F Ho… - The Lancet Regional …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Summary Background Hong Kong contained COVID-19 for two years but experienced a
large epidemic of Omicron BA. 2 in early 2022 and endemic transmission of Omicron …

Within-host genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 lineages in unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals

H Gu, AA Quadeer, P Krishnan, DYM Ng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Viral and host factors can shape SARS-CoV-2 evolution. However, little is known about
lineage-specific and vaccination-specific mutations that occur within individuals. Here, we …

Resurgence of omicron BA. 2 in SARS-CoV-2 infection-naive Hong Kong

R Xie, KM Edwards, DC Adam, KSM Leung… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Hong Kong experienced a surge of Omicron BA. 2 infections in early 2022, resulting in one
of the highest per-capita death rates of COVID-19. The outbreak occurred in a dense …

Incorporating temporal distribution of population-level viral load enables real-time estimation of COVID-19 transmission

Y Lin, B Yang, S Cobey, EHY Lau, DC Adam… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Many locations around the world have used real-time estimates of the time-varying effective
reproductive number (R t) of COVID-19 to provide evidence of transmission intensity to …

[HTML][HTML] Advancing CRISPR-Based Solutions for COVID-19 Diagnosis and Therapeutics

R Hadi, A Poddar, S Sonnaila, VSM Bhavaraju… - Cells, 2024 - mdpi.com
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a variety of diagnostic approaches, including RT-
qPCR, RAPID, and LFA, have been adopted, with RT-qPCR emerging as the gold standard …

Integrating contact tracing data to enhance outbreak phylodynamic inference: a deep learning approach

R Xie, DC Adam, S Hu, BJ Cowling… - Molecular Biology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Phylodynamics is central to understanding infectious disease dynamics through the
integration of genomic and epidemiological data. Despite advancements, including the …

Genomic surveillance reveals early detection and transition of delta to omicron lineages of SARS-CoV-2 variants in wastewater treatment plants of Pune, India

V Rajput, R Pramanik, V Malik, R Yadav… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the urgency for rapid public health surveillance
methods to detect and monitor the transmission of infectious diseases. The wastewater …

Investigation of the molecular epidemiology and evolution of circulating severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in Thailand from 2020 to 2022 via next …

J Puenpa, V Sawaswong, P Nimsamer, S Payungporn… - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious condition caused by the severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), which surfaced in Thailand in early …

Genomic epidemiology of circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants during first two years of the pandemic in Colombia

C Jimenez-Silva, R Rivero, J Douglas, R Bouckaert… - medRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
The emergence of highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 variants has led to surges in cases and
the need for global genomic surveillance. While some variants rapidly spread worldwide …