SARS-CoV-2 variants, vaccines, and host immunity

P Mistry, F Barmania, J Mellet, K Peta… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a new beta coronavirus
that emerged at the end of 2019 in the Hubei province of China. SARS-CoV-2 causes …

The variant gambit: COVID-19's next move

JA Plante, BM Mitchell, KS Plante, K Debbink… - Cell host & …, 2021 - cell.com
More than a year after its emergence, COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2,
continues to plague the world and dominate our daily lives. Even with the development of …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants escape neutralization by vaccine-induced humoral immunity

WF Garcia-Beltran, EC Lam, KS Denis, AD Nitido… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Vaccination elicits immune responses capable of potently neutralizing SARS-CoV-2.
However, ongoing surveillance has revealed the emergence of variants harboring mutations …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19-neutralizing antibodies predict disease severity and survival

WF Garcia-Beltran, EC Lam, MG Astudillo, D Yang… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Summary Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) exhibits variable symptom severity ranging
from asymptomatic to life-threatening, yet the relationship between severity and the humoral …

The global epidemic of SARS‐CoV‐2 variants and their mutational immune escape

D Tian, YH Sun, JM Zhou, Q Ye - Journal of medical virology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
During the COVID‐19 pandemic, genetic variants of SARS‐CoV‐2 have been emerging and
spreading around the world. Several SARS‐CoV‐2 endemic variants were found in United …

Community transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by surfaces: risks and risk reduction strategies

AK Pitol, TR Julian - Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, is perceived to be primarily
transmitted via person-to-person contact through droplets produced while talking, coughing …

Natural and experimental SARS-CoV-2 infection in domestic and wild animals

DA Meekins, NN Gaudreault, JA Richt - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
SARS-CoV-2 is the etiological agent responsible for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,
which continues to spread with devastating effects on global health and socioeconomics …

The olfactory nerve is not a likely route to brain infection in COVID-19: a critical review of data from humans and animal models

R Butowt, N Meunier, B Bryche, CS von Bartheld - Acta neuropathologica, 2021 - Springer
One of the most frequent symptoms of COVID-19 is the loss of smell and taste. Based on the
lack of expression of the virus entry proteins in olfactory receptor neurons, it was originally …

The SARS-CoV-2 and other human coronavirus spike proteins are fine-tuned towards temperature and proteases of the human airways

M Laporte, V Raeymaekers, R Van Berwaer… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The high transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 is related to abundant replication in the upper
airways, which is not observed for the other highly pathogenic coronaviruses SARS-CoV …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 new variants: Characteristic features and impact on the efficacy of different vaccines

A Khan, T Khan, S Ali, S Aftab, Y Wang… - Biomedicine & …, 2021 - Elsevier
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its
new variants reported in different countries have posed a serious threat to human health and …