Pandemics throughout history

J Piret, G Boivin - Frontiers in microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The emergence and spread of infectious diseases with pandemic potential occurred
regularly throughout history. Major pandemics and epidemics such as plague, cholera, flu …

The deadly coronaviruses: The 2003 SARS pandemic and the 2020 novel coronavirus epidemic in China

Y Yang, F Peng, R Wang, K Guan, T Jiang, G Xu… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The 2019-nCoV is officially called SARS-CoV-2 and the disease is named COVID-19. This
viral epidemic in China has led to the deaths of over 1800 people, mostly elderly or those …

[HTML][HTML] Zoonotic origins of human coronaviruses

ZW Ye, S Yuan, KS Yuen, SY Fung… - International journal of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Mutation and adaptation have driven the co-evolution of coronaviruses (CoVs) and their
hosts, including human beings, for thousands of years. Before 2003, two human CoVs …

COVID-19: Immunology and treatment options

S Felsenstein, JA Herbert, PS McNamara… - Clinical …, 2020 - Elsevier
The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV2 causes COVID-19, a pandemic threatening millions. As
protective immunity does not exist in humans and the virus is capable of escaping innate …

[HTML][HTML] A genomic perspective on the origin and emergence of SARS-CoV-2

YZ Zhang, EC Holmes - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The ongoing pandemic of a new human coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has generated
enormous global concern. We and others in China were involved in the initial genome …

From SARS to SARS-CoV-2, insights on structure, pathogenicity and immunity aspects of pandemic human coronaviruses

N Kirtipal, S Bharadwaj, SG Kang - Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Human Coronaviruses (HCoV), periodically emerging across the world, are
potential threat to humans such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS …

[HTML][HTML] Neutralizing antibody vaccine for pandemic and pre-emergent coronaviruses

KO Saunders, E Lee, R Parks, DR Martinez, D Li… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Betacoronaviruses caused the outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and
Middle East respiratory syndrome, as well as the current pandemic of SARS coronavirus 2 …

Isolation of SARS-CoV-2-related coronavirus from Malayan pangolins

K Xiao, J Zhai, Y Feng, N Zhou, X Zhang, JJ Zou, N Li… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The current outbreak of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) poses unprecedented
challenges to global health. The new coronavirus responsible for this outbreak—severe …

Middle East respiratory syndrome

ZA Memish, S Perlman, MD Van Kerkhove, A Zumla - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Summary The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a lethal
zoonotic pathogen that was first identified in humans in Saudi Arabia and Jordan in 2012 …

ACE2 receptor polymorphism: Susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2, hypertension, multi-organ failure, and COVID-19 disease outcome

CA Devaux, JM Rolain, D Raoult - Journal of Microbiology, Immunology …, 2020 - Elsevier
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has emerged in
Chinese people in December 2019 and has currently spread worldwide causing the COVID …