[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 …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant: recent progress and future perspectives

Y Fan, X Li, L Zhang, S Wan, L Zhang… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, there have been
a few variants of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), one of …

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 …

SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis

MM Lamers, BL Haagmans - Nature reviews microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has
caused a devastating pandemic. Although most people infected with SARS-CoV-2 develop …

Understanding COVID-19-associated coagulopathy

EM Conway, N Mackman, RQ Warren… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract COVID-19-associated coagulopathy (CAC) is a life-threatening complication of
SARS-CoV-2 infection. However, the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms driving …

[HTML][HTML] Virological characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA. 2 spike

D Yamasoba, I Kimura, H Nasser, Y Morioka, N Nao… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Soon after the emergence and global spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineage BA. 1,
another Omicron lineage, BA. 2, began outcompeting BA. 1. The results of statistical analysis …

Bivalent SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines increase breadth of neutralization and protect against the BA. 5 Omicron variant in mice

SM Scheaffer, D Lee, B Whitener, B Ying, K Wu… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants
in the Omicron lineage has resulted in diminished Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

Pathogenicity, transmissibility, and fitness of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron in Syrian hamsters

S Yuan, ZW Ye, R Liang, K Tang, AJ Zhang, G Lu… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The in vivo pathogenicity, transmissibility, and fitness of the severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron (B. 1.1. 529) variant are not well …

Characterisation of SARS-CoV-2 variants in Beijing during 2022: an epidemiological and phylogenetic analysis

Y Pan, L Wang, Z Feng, H Xu, F Li, Y Shen, D Zhang… - The lancet, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Due to the national dynamic zero-COVID strategy in China, there were no
persistent local transmissions of SARS-CoV-2 in Beijing before December, 2022. However …

[HTML][HTML] Global emerging Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2: Impacts, challenges and strategies

K Dhama, F Nainu, A Frediansyah, MI Yatoo… - Journal of infection and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Newly emerging variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
are continuously posing high global public health concerns and panic resulting in waves of …