The COVID-19 pandemic: viral variants and vaccine efficacy

M Ciotti, M Ciccozzi, M Pieri… - Critical reviews in clinical …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has
prompted the scientific community and the pharmaceutical companies to put maximum …

SARS-CoV-2 genomics: An Indian perspective on sequencing viral variants

S Srivastava, S Banu, P Singh, DT Sowpati… - Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Since its emergence as a pneumonia-like outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late
2019, the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 has spread widely to become a global …

Pervasive transmission of E484K and emergence of VUI-NP13L with evidence of SARS-CoV-2 co-infection events by two different lineages in Rio Grande do Sul …

R da Silva Francisco Jr, LF Benites, AP Lamarca… - Virus research, 2021 - Elsevier
Emergence of novel SARS-CoV-2 lineages are under the spotlight of the media, scientific
community and governments. Recent reports of novel variants in the United Kingdom, South …

Signatures of COVID-19 severity and immune response in the respiratory tract microbiome

C Merenstein, G Liang, SA Whiteside… - MBio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Viral infection of the respiratory tract can be associated with propagating effects on the
airway microbiome, and microbiome dysbiosis may influence viral disease. Here, we …

Role of genomics in combating COVID-19 pandemic

KA Saravanan, M Panigrahi, H Kumar, D Rajawat… - Gene, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) quickly swept over the world, becoming
one of the most devastating outbreaks in human history. Being the first pandemic in the post …

Comprehensive analysis of genomic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 in different geographic regions of India: an endeavour to classify Indian SARS-CoV-2 strains on the …

R Sarkar, S Mitra, P Chandra, P Saha, A Banerjee… - Archives of …, 2021 - Springer
Accumulation of mutations within the genome is the primary driving force in viral evolution
within an endemic setting. This inherent feature often leads to altered virulence, infectivity …

Human coronaviruses: The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 and management of COVID-19

M Solomon, C Liang - Virus research, 2022 - Elsevier
To date, a total of seven human coronaviruses (HCoVs) have been identified, all of which
are important respiratory pathogens. Recently, severe acute respiratory syndrome …

SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in a tri-national urban area is dominated by a B. 1 lineage variant linked to a mass gathering event

M Stange, A Mari, T Roloff, HMB Seth-Smith… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The first case of SARS-CoV-2 in Basel, Switzerland was detected on February 26th 2020.
We present a phylogenetic study to explore viral introduction and evolution during the …

The COVID‐19 epidemic in Madagascar: clinical description and laboratory results of the first wave, March‐September 2020

RV Randremanana… - Influenza and other …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Following the first detection of SARS‐CoV‐2 in passengers arriving from
Europe on 19 March 2020, Madagascar took several mitigation measures to limit the spread …

Spatio-temporal dynamics of intra-host variability in SARS-CoV-2 genomes

AK Pathak, GP Mishra, B Uppili, S Walia… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
During the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, large-scale genome sequencing of SARS-
CoV-2 has been useful in tracking its spread and in identifying variants of concern (VOC) …