Virological characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 XBB variant derived from recombination of two Omicron subvariants

T Tamura, J Ito, K Uriu, J Zahradnik, I Kida… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract In late 2022, SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants have become highly diversified,
and XBB is spreading rapidly around the world. Our phylogenetic analyses suggested that …

Convergent evolution of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants leading to the emergence of BQ. 1.1 variant

J Ito, R Suzuki, K Uriu, Y Itakura, J Zahradnik… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In late 2022, various Omicron subvariants emerged and cocirculated worldwide. These
variants convergently acquired amino acid substitutions at critical residues in the spike …

Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 BQ. 1.1 and XBB. 1.5 by breakthrough infection sera from previous and current waves in China

X Wang, S Jiang, S Jiang, X Li, J Ai, K Lin, S Lv… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
SARS-CoV-2 is continuing to evolve and diversify, with an array of various Omicron sub-
lineages, including BA. 5, BA. 2.75, BN. 1, BF. 7, BQ. 1, BQ. 1.1, XBB and XBB. 1.5, now …

Does disseminating scientific information on social media promote public health during the COVID‐19 pandemic?

M Quan, C Zhang - Journal of the Association for Information …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Countries worldwide are transitioning their emergency response activities into long‐term
management of COVID‐19. One promising strategy to mitigate the pandemic is combining …

Antibody escape, the risk of serotype formation, and rapid immune waning: Modeling the implications of SARS-CoV-2 immune evasion

C Albright, D Van Egeren, A Thakur, A Chakravarty… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, widespread community transmission of SARS-CoV-
2 has ushered in a volatile era of viral immune evasion rather than the much-heralded …

Underlying driving forces of the SARS-CoV-2 evolution: immune evasion and ACE2 binding affinity

W Ma, H Fu, F Jian, Y Cao, M Li - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
The evolution of SARS-CoV-2 is characterized by the emergence of new variants with a
sheer number of mutations compared to their predecessors, which conferred resistance to …