SARS-CoV-2 within-host diversity of human hosts and its implications for viral immune evasion

B Xi, X Zeng, Z Chen, J Zeng, L Huang, H Du - MBio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is continuously evolving,
bringing great challenges to the control of the virus. In the present study, we investigated the …

[HTML][HTML] The natural evolution of RNA viruses provides important clues about the origin of SARS-CoV-2 variants

H Arakawa - SynBio, 2024 - mdpi.com
Despite the recent pandemic, the origin of its causative agent, SARS-CoV-2, remains
controversial. This study identifies several prototype SARS-CoV-2 variants (proto-variants) …

SARS-CoV-2 genomic characterization and evolution in China

P Zhang, D Liu, L Ji, F Dong - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
The pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
affected global health worldwide due to its high contagiousness. During the viral spread …

[HTML][HTML] Positive Diagnosis of COVID-19 in an Integrated Teaching and Healthcare Service and Its Associated Factors

N Delgado-Mendoza, A Gómez-Suyón… - Healthcare, 2024 - mdpi.com
Developing and implementing an epidemiological surveillance plan was necessary during
the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure safe dental practice. This was due to the high risk faced …

Purifying selection and adaptive evolution proximate to the zoonosis of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2

JP Townsend, S Gaughran, HB Hassler, JN Fisk… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Over the past two decades the pace of spillovers from animal viruses to humans has
accelerated, with COVID-19 becoming the most deadly zoonotic disease in living memory …