The emergence and epidemic characteristics of the highly mutated SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron variant

D Tian, Y Sun, H Xu, Q Ye - Journal of medical virology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) Omicron
variant (B. 1.1. 529) was first identified in Botswana in November 2021. It was first reported …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Receptor binding and complex structures of human ACE2 to spike RBD from omicron and delta SARS-CoV-2

P Han, L Li, S Liu, Q Wang, D Zhang, Z Xu, P Han, X Li… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Summary The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues worldwide with
many variants arising, some of which are variants of concern (VOCs). A recent VOC, omicron …

Antibodies to combat viral infections: development strategies and progress

G Pantaleo, B Correia, C Fenwick, VS Joo… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are appealing as potential therapeutics and prophylactics for
viral infections owing to characteristics such as their high specificity and their ability to …

COVID-19 vaccination: The road ahead

DM Altmann, RJ Boyton - Science, 2022 - science.org
A diverse array of successful, first-generation SARS-CoV-2 vaccines have played a huge
role in efforts to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control, even though inequitable …

Viral vectored vaccines: design, development, preventive and therapeutic applications in human diseases

S Wang, B Liang, W Wang, L Li, N Feng… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Human diseases, particularly infectious diseases and cancers, pose unprecedented
challenges to public health security and the global economy. The development and …

Independent infections of porcine deltacoronavirus among Haitian children

JA Lednicky, MS Tagliamonte, SK White, MA Elbadry… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Coronaviruses have caused three major epidemics since 2003, including the ongoing SARS-
CoV-2 pandemic. In each case, the emergence of coronavirus in our species has been …

COVID-19: a global challenge with old history, epidemiology and progress so far

M Khan, SF Adil, HZ Alkhathlan, MN Tahir, S Saif… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Humans have witnessed three deadly pandemics so far in the twenty-first century which are
associated with novel coronaviruses: SARS, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and …

Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 transmission and pathogenesis

AG Harrison, T Lin, P Wang - Trends in immunology, 2020 - cell.com
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) marks
the third highly pathogenic coronavirus to spill over into the human population. SARS-CoV-2 …

Aging in COVID-19: Vulnerability, immunity and intervention

Y Chen, SL Klein, BT Garibaldi, H Li, C Wu… - Ageing research …, 2021 - Elsevier
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic was first
reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019, moved across the globe at an unprecedented …