[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 entry into cells

CB Jackson, M Farzan, B Chen, H Choe - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
The unprecedented public health and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic caused
by infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been …

[HTML][HTML] The origins of SARS-CoV-2: A critical review

EC Holmes, SA Goldstein, AL Rasmussen… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Since the first reports of a novel severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-like coronavirus
in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, there has been intense interest in understanding how …

Tracking SARS-CoV-2 Omicron diverse spike gene mutations identifies multiple inter-variant recombination events

J Ou, W Lan, X Wu, T Zhao, B Duan, P Yang… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2022 - nature.com
The current pandemic of COVID-19 is fueled by more infectious emergent Omicron variants.
Ongoing concerns of emergent variants include possible recombinants, as genome …

The costs and benefits of primary prevention of zoonotic pandemics

AS Bernstein, AW Ando, T Loch-Temzelides… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The lives lost and economic costs of viral zoonotic pandemics have steadily increased over
the past century. Prominent policymakers have promoted plans that argue the best ways to …

Sensitivity of SARS-CoV-2 B. 1.1. 7 to mRNA vaccine-elicited antibodies

DA Collier, A De Marco, IATM Ferreira, B Meng… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is uncontrolled in many parts of the world; control is
compounded in some areas by the higher transmission potential of the B. 1.1. 7 variant …

Pandemics throughout history

J Piret, G Boivin - Frontiers in microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The emergence and spread of infectious diseases with pandemic potential occurred
regularly throughout history. Major pandemics and epidemics such as plague, cholera, flu …

[HTML][HTML] Coronavirus biology and replication: implications for SARS-CoV-2

P V'kovski, A Kratzel, S Steiner, H Stalder… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and its unprecedented global societal and economic disruptive
impact has marked the third zoonotic introduction of a highly pathogenic coronavirus into the …

Evidence for SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses circulating in bats and pangolins in Southeast Asia

S Wacharapluesadee, CW Tan, P Maneeorn… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Among the many questions unanswered for the COVID-19 pandemic are the origin of SARS-
CoV-2 and the potential role of intermediate animal host (s) in the early animal-to-human …

From SARS and MERS to COVID-19: a brief summary and comparison of severe acute respiratory infections caused by three highly pathogenic human coronaviruses

Z Zhu, X Lian, X Su, W Wu, GA Marraro, Y Zeng - Respiratory research, 2020 - Springer
Within two decades, there have emerged three highly pathogenic and deadly human
coronaviruses, namely SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. The economic burden …

Zoonotic diseases: etiology, impact, and control

MT Rahman, MA Sobur, MS Islam, S Ievy, MJ Hossain… - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
Most humans are in contact with animals in a way or another. A zoonotic disease is a
disease or infection that can be transmitted naturally from vertebrate animals to humans or …