The cytokine storm and COVID‐19

B Hu, S Huang, L Yin - Journal of medical virology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19), which began in Wuhan, China, in
December 2019, has caused a large global pandemic and poses a serious threat to public …

Anosmia in COVID-19: underlying mechanisms and assessment of an olfactory route to brain infection

R Butowt, CS von Bartheld - The Neuroscientist, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
In recent months it has emerged that the novel coronavirus—responsible for the COVID-19
pandemic—causes reduction of smell and taste in a large fraction of patients. The …

COVID-19 pandemic: Insights into structure, function, and hACE2 receptor recognition by SARS-CoV-2

A Mittal, K Manjunath, RK Ranjan, S Kaushik… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a newly emerging,
highly transmissible, and pathogenic coronavirus in humans that has caused global public …

The role of host genetics in the immune response to SARS‐CoV‐2 and COVID‐19 susceptibility and severity

IG Ovsyannikova, IH Haralambieva… - Immunological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This article provides a review of studies evaluating the role of host (and viral) genetics
(including variation in HLA genes) in the immune response to coronaviruses, as well as the …

[HTML][HTML] Genetics and genomics of SARS-CoV-2: A review of the literature with the special focus on genetic diversity and SARS-CoV-2 genome detection

A Rahimi, A Mirzazadeh, S Tavakolpour - Genomics, 2021 - Elsevier
The outbreak of 2019-novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by SARS-CoV-2,
started in late 2019; in a short time, it has spread rapidly all over the world. Although some …

DC/L-SIGN recognition of spike glycoprotein promotes SARS-CoV-2 trans-infection and can be inhibited by a glycomimetic antagonist

M Thépaut, J Luczkowiak, C Vivès, N Labiod… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The efficient spread of SARS-CoV-2 resulted in a unique pandemic in modern history.
Despite early identification of ACE2 as the receptor for viral spike protein, much remains to …

Evolutionary dynamics of SARS‐CoV‐2 nucleocapsid protein and its consequences

MS Rahman, MR Islam, ASMRU Alam… - Journal of medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The emerged novel coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐
CoV‐2) has created a global health crisis that warrants an accurate and detailed …

New insights of emerging SARS-CoV-2: epidemiology, etiology, clinical features, clinical treatment, and prevention

G Guo, L Ye, K Pan, Y Chen, D Xing, K Yan… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Since the first reports that the novel coronavirus was showing human-to-human transmission
characteristics and asymptomatic cases, the number of patients with associated pneumonia …

Global dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 clades and their relation to COVID-19 epidemiology

SM Hamed, WF Elkhatib, AS Khairalla, AM Noreddin - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Expansion of COVID-19 worldwide increases interest in unraveling genomic variations of
novel SARS-CoV-2 virus. Metadata of 408,493 SARS-CoV-2 genomes submitted to GISAID …

Mutations in SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA identified in Eastern India: Possible implications for the ongoing outbreak in India and impact on viral structure and host …

A Maitra, MC Sarkar, H Raheja, NK Biswas… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Direct massively parallel sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 genome was undertaken from
nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swab samples of infected individuals in Eastern India …