[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 variant biology: immune escape, transmission and fitness

AM Carabelli, TP Peacock, LG Thorne… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
In late 2020, after circulating for almost a year in the human population, severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) exhibited a major step change in its …

The evolution of SARS-CoV-2

PV Markov, M Ghafari, M Beer, K Lythgoe… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused millions of
deaths and substantial morbidity worldwide. Intense scientific effort to understand the …

The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic

M Worobey, JI Levy, L Malpica Serrano… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Understanding how severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
emerged in 2019 is critical to preventing future zoonotic outbreaks before they become the …

The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2

JE Pekar, A Magee, E Parker, N Moshiri, K Izhikevich… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Understanding the circumstances that lead to pandemics is important for their prevention.
We analyzed the genomic diversity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 …

Divergent SARS-CoV-2 variant emerges in white-tailed deer with deer-to-human transmission

B Pickering, O Lung, F Maguire, P Kruczkiewicz… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Wildlife reservoirs of broad-host-range viruses have the potential to enable evolution of viral
variants that can emerge to infect humans. In North America, there is phylogenomic …

Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in free-ranging white-tailed deer in the United States

A Feng, S Bevins, J Chandler, TJ DeLiberto… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 is a zoonotic virus with documented bi-directional transmission between
people and animals. Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from humans to free-ranging white-tailed …

The evolution and biology of SARS-CoV-2 variants

A Telenti, EB Hodcroft… - Cold Spring …, 2022 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Our understanding of the still unfolding severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) pandemic would have been extremely limited without the study of the …

Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 delta variant (AY. 127) from pet hamsters to humans, leading to onward human-to-human transmission: a case study

HL Yen, THC Sit, CJ Brackman, SSY Chuk, H Gu… - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Summary Background Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from humans to other mammals,
including pet animals, has been reported. However, with the exception of farmed mink, there …

[PDF][PDF] The SARS-CoV-2 variant, Omicron, shows rapid replication in human primary nasal epithelial cultures and efficiently uses the endosomal route of entry

TP Peacock, JC Brown, J Zhou, N Thakur… - …, 2022 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
At the end of 2021 a new SARS-CoV-2 variant, Omicron, emerged and quickly spread
across the world. It has been demonstrated that Omicron's high number of Spike mutations …

COVID-19 2022 update: transition of the pandemic to the endemic phase

M Biancolella, VL Colona, R Mehrian-Shai, JL Watt… - Human genomics, 2022 - Springer
COVID-19, which is caused by the SARS-CoV-2, has ravaged the world for the past 2 years.
Here, we review the current state of research into the disease with focus on its history …