SARS-CoV-2 one year on: evidence for ongoing viral adaptation

TP Peacock, R Penrice-Randal… - Journal of General …, 2021 - microbiologyresearch.org
SARS-CoV-2 is thought to have originated in the human population from a zoonotic spillover
event. Infection in humans results in a variety of outcomes ranging from asymptomatic cases …

Biological properties of SARS-CoV-2 variants: epidemiological impact and clinical consequences

R Hoteit, HM Yassine - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a virus that belongs to
the coronavirus family and is the cause of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). As of May …

[HTML][HTML] Sequence analysis of 20,453 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 genomes from the Houston metropolitan area identifies the emergence and …

SW Long, RJ Olsen, PA Christensen, S Subedi… - The American journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Since the beginning of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
pandemic, there has been international concern about the emergence of virus variants with …

Structural evolution of Delta lineage of SARS-CoV-2

MM Gomari, P Tarighi, E Choupani, S Abkhiz… - International journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
One of the main obstacles in prevention and treatment of COVID-19 is the rapid evolution of
the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein. Given that Spike is the main target of common treatments of …

Structural analysis of the novel variants of SARS-CoV-2 and forecasting in North America

E Quinonez, M Vahed, A Hashemi Shahraki… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background: little is known about the forecasting of new variants of SARS-COV-2 in North
America and the interaction of variants with vaccine-derived neutralizing antibodies …

A rapid and low-cost protocol for the detection of B. 1.1. 7 lineage of SARS-CoV-2 by using SYBR Green-based RT-qPCR

F Abdel Sater, M Younes, H Nassar, P Nguewa… - Molecular Biology …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background The new SARS-CoV-2 variant VOC (202012/01), identified recently in
the United Kingdom (UK), exhibits a higher transmissibility rate compared to other variants …

Sequence analysis of 20,453 SARS-CoV-2 genomes from the Houston Metropolitan Area identifies the emergence and widespread distribution of multiple isolates of …

SW Long, RJ Olsen, PA Christensen, S Subedi… - MedRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
Since the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, there has been international concern
about the emergence of virus variants with mutations that increase transmissibility, enhance …

Intranasal vaccination strategy to control the COVID-19 pandemic from a veterinary medicine perspective

S Annas, M Zamri-Saad - Animals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Intranasal vaccination is one of the methods used to stimulate mucosal
immunity. It has been widely practised to control many human and animal respiratory …

Lebanese SARS-CoV-2 genomics: 24 months of the pandemic

N Fayad, W Abi Habib, R El-Shesheny, A Kandeil… - Virus Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to pose a global health concern, despite the ongoing
vaccination campaigns, due to the emergence and rapid spread of new variants of the …

COVID-19 in Lebanon: demographics and distribution

M Fadlallah, F Hobeiche… - BAU Journal-Health …, 2022 - digitalcommons.bau.edu.lb
COVID-19 pandemic has emerged over more than 200 countries leading to more than 117
million infection cases and more than 2.6 million deaths. Lebanon is one of the countries …