SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants: burden of disease, impact on vaccine effectiveness and need for variant-adapted vaccines

S Pather, SA Madhi, BJ Cowling, P Moss… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The highly transmissible Omicron (B. 1.1. 529) variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was first detected in late 2021. Initial Omicron waves were …

Recent review of COVID-19 management: Diagnosis, treatment and vaccination

VP Chavda, S Vuppu, T Mishra, S Kamaraj… - Pharmacological …, 2022 - Springer
The idiopathic Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak caused by the
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has reached global …

Cognition and memory after Covid-19 in a large community sample

A Hampshire, A Azor, C Atchison… - … England Journal of …, 2024 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Cognitive symptoms after coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), the disease
caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), are well …

Context-specific emergence and growth of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant

JT McCrone, V Hill, S Bajaj, RE Pena, BC Lambert… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The SARS-CoV-2 Delta (Pango lineage B. 1.617. 2) variant of concern spread
globally, causing resurgences of COVID-19 worldwide,. The emergence of the Delta variant …

An intranasal influenza virus-vectored vaccine prevents SARS-CoV-2 replication in respiratory tissues of mice and hamsters

S Deng, Y Liu, RCY Tam, P Chen, AJ Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Current available vaccines for COVID-19 are effective in reducing severe diseases and
deaths caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection but less optimal in preventing infection. Next …

COVID-19 pandemic interventions reshaped the global dispersal of seasonal influenza viruses

Z Chen, JLH Tsui, B Gutierrez, S Busch Moreno… - Science, 2024 - science.org
The global dynamics of seasonal influenza viruses inform the design of surveillance,
intervention, and vaccination strategies. The COVID-19 pandemic provided a singular …

Dynamics of competing SARS-CoV-2 variants during the Omicron epidemic in England

O Eales, L de Oliveira Martins, AJ Page, H Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has been characterised by the regular emergence of genomic
variants. With natural and vaccine-induced population immunity at high levels, evolutionary …

The relative prevalence of the Omicron variant within SARS-CoV-2 infected cohorts in different countries: a systematic review

A Sarkar, S Omar, A Alshareef, K Fanous… - Human Vaccines & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 was detected in October 2021 and exhibited high
transmissibility, immune evasion, and reduced severity when compared to the earlier …

Genomic assessment of invasion dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA. 1

JLH Tsui, JT McCrone, B Lambert, S Bajaj, RPD Inward… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants of concern (VOCs)
now arise in the context of heterogeneous human connectivity and population immunity …

Spike recognition and neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants elicited after the third dose of mRNA vaccine

A Tauzin, A Nicolas, S Ding, M Benlarbi, H Medjahed… - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
Several severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron
subvariants have recently emerged, becoming the dominant circulating strains in many …