Recent developments in the immunopathology of COVID‐19

H Zhang, Y Sun, Y Wang, D Yazici, D Azkur, I Ogulur… - Allergy, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
There has been an important change in the clinical characteristics and immune profile of
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) patients during the pandemic thanks to the …

Molecular characteristics, immune evasion, and impact of SARS-CoV-2 variants

C Sun, C **e, GL Bu, LY Zhong, MS Zeng - Signal Transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The persistent COVID-19 pandemic since 2020 has brought an enormous public health
burden to the global society and is accompanied by various evolution of the virus genome …

Infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections and reinfections during the Omicron wave

ST Tan, AT Kwan, I Rodríguez-Barraquer, BJ Singer… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) breakthrough infections in
vaccinated individuals and reinfections in previously infected individuals have become …

A variant-proof SARS-CoV-2 vaccine targeting HR1 domain in S2 subunit of spike protein

W Pang, Y Lu, YB Zhao, F Shen, CF Fan, Q Wang… - Cell Research, 2022 - nature.com
The emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants, commonly with many mutations in S1 subunit of spike
(S) protein are weakening the efficacy of the current vaccines and antibody therapeutics …

Interfering with interferons: A critical mechanism for critical COVID-19 pneumonia

HC Su, H **g, Y Zhang… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Infection with SARS-CoV-2 results in clinical outcomes ranging from silent or benign
infection in most individuals to critical pneumonia and death in a few. Genetic studies in …

COVID‐19: Omicron–the latest, the least virulent, but probably not the last variant of concern of SARS‐CoV‐2

H Brüssow - Microbial Biotechnology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The Omicron variant rapidly became the dominant SARS‐CoV‐2 strain in South Africa and
elsewhere. This review explores whether this rise was due to an increased transmission of …

Fitness, growth and transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 genetic variants

E Volz - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
The massive scale of the global SARS-CoV-2 sequencing effort created new opportunities
and challenges for understanding SARS-CoV-2 evolution. Rapid detection and assessment …

BNT162b2-induced memory T cells respond to the Omicron variant with preserved polyfunctionality

MK Jung, SD Jeong, JY Noh, DU Kim, S Jung… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Omicron variant (B. 1.1. 529) of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
2 (SARS-CoV-2) extensively escapes neutralizing antibodies elicited by SARS-CoV-2 …

[HTML][HTML] Breakthrough infections after COVID-19 vaccination: Insights, perspectives and challenges

E Amanatidou, A Gkiouliava, E Pella, M Serafidi… - Metabolism open, 2022 - Elsevier
Vaccination programs against SARS-CoV-2 constitute the mainstay of public health
interventions against the global COVID-19 pandemic. Currently available vaccines have …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 pandemic dynamics in South Africa and epidemiological characteristics of three variants of concern (Beta, Delta, and Omicron)

W Yang, JL Shaman - Elife, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants of concern (VOCs)
have been key drivers of new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic waves. To …